or at least to outside our solar system and into interstellar space, according to someone the BBC are quoting.
BBC News - Voyager near Solar System's edge
Although the prevailing view is, or was, that the solar system's boundary was beyond the Oort cloud, a cloud of comets lying a good fraction of a light year from the Sun, and Voyager is no where near that distance. Not even a significant tiny fraction of that distance. 1/500th of the distance by conservative estimates and 1/1700 by bigger ones.
Perhaps our solar system has shrunk.
Earth from Voyager 1, taken in 1990 from a distance of 40 earth-sun distances (AU)
Pale Blue Dot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Or about the distance of Pluto from the Sun.
Voyager 1, the fastest out of the two Voyagers and the second to be launched, is currently 115 AU from the Sun and is expected to be lifeless by 2025. I do hope our distant ancestors pay a visit one day, and change the batteries. Fare well Voyager.
BBC News - Voyager near Solar System's edge
Although the prevailing view is, or was, that the solar system's boundary was beyond the Oort cloud, a cloud of comets lying a good fraction of a light year from the Sun, and Voyager is no where near that distance. Not even a significant tiny fraction of that distance. 1/500th of the distance by conservative estimates and 1/1700 by bigger ones.
Perhaps our solar system has shrunk.
Earth from Voyager 1, taken in 1990 from a distance of 40 earth-sun distances (AU)
Pale Blue Dot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Or about the distance of Pluto from the Sun.
Voyager 1, the fastest out of the two Voyagers and the second to be launched, is currently 115 AU from the Sun and is expected to be lifeless by 2025. I do hope our distant ancestors pay a visit one day, and change the batteries. Fare well Voyager.
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