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Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 4:00 pm Post subject: Voyager 1 Becomes First Man-Made Object to Reach Interstell |
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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, which toured the outer solar system in 1979, has officially entered interstellar space and is now more than 19 billion kilometers from our sun, nearly 130 times farther away than our planet. An announcement today from NASA scientists confirms that the probe has entered a region of space that is outside our sun's electromagnetic influence. <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'> </td></tr></table></div><br/><br/> <br/> <br/> <br/><br/>
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