Voyager Makes an Interstellar Discovery

Science@NASA ^ | 12.23.2009 | Dr. Tony Phillips

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It really was. I remember his showing me the plutonium canisters being destructively tested to make sure they wouldn’t crack open upon launch. Some amazing engineering feats in that project!

[Bean Counter]

Just amazing! There are a lot of guys who are retiring now, who cut their professional teeth on the Voyager program, and the spacecraft are still out there doing meaningful science./

Wow. Just wow!!

[opbuzz]

6000c = 10832f

Cool. How long will Voyager last in that?

[jdege]

I ran across a book, a few years back, called “The Big Bang Never Happened.” It’s premise was that cosmologists assumptions that only gravity mattered on a cosmic scale, because positive and negative electromagnetic forces canceled each other out, was unfounded. And that the observations were consistent with a universe filled with massive electromagnetic flux.

Interesting that we should have found some.

Of course, the consequence of having electromagnetism matter is that the past and the future of the universe is no longer predictable. If gravity is everything, we can know the end state. If it is not, we cannot.

http://bigbangneverhappened.org/

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Voyager is still sending data.It probably has enough power until another decade

[dragnet2]

NASA’s two Voyager probes have been racing out of the solar system for more than 30 years.

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The spacecraft are moving at approximately 12 miles per second......And they still haven’t left the solar system...lol..

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Family Portrait done by Voyager 1 in February 1990

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Close Ups

[PeaceBeWithYou]

A Breeze from the Thirteenth House - Interesting, Related.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Where does the Solar System “end” or where interstellar space “begin”?

[Captain Beyond]

bump

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Voyager will most likely be OK, as the density of the cloud is much less than the Heliosphere and Heliosheath. (See link in post 29)

[38special]

Hey Hey, You You get off of my cloud...

[grey_whiskers]

Like, *PING*, dudes.

[grey_whiskers]

Artist's conception of Milky Way and Fluff:.

Milky Way is center just below the top with Fluff to its left:

Cheers!

[MediaMole]

Pretty sure only climatologists know everything.

[grey_whiskers]

Can anyone say "V'Ger" and "Heavenly Bodies"?

Cheers!

[dragnet2]

Where does the Solar System “end” or where interstellar space “begin”?

Well, there is no sign or solar system border line, but it's generally thought to be beyond the orbit of Pluto...It's up for debate...lol

That being said, the gravitational influence of the sun is estimated to reach approximately two light years out. Give or take.

[Gene Eric]

That’s cool. I’m amazed the Voyagers are still cruising some thirty years later.

[Spktyr]

No, it just means that we just enter and exit the system through the sun’s ‘wake’ or come up with a subspace drive that bypasses it entirely. Same reason you don’t jump off the front of a moving boat when diving.