![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() New and unexpected data indicate Voyager 1 has been traveling for about one year through plasma, or ionized gas, present in the space between stars. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechĪ newly published study has confirmed that the 36-year-old NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft has left our solar system and has entered interstellar space. The interstellar plasma is shown with an orange glow similar to the color seen in visible-light images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope that show stars in the Orion nebula traveling through interstellar space. The environment inside our solar bubble is dominated by the plasma exhausted by our sun, known as the solar wind. Interstellar space is dominated by the plasma, or ionized gas, that was ejected by the death of nearby giant stars millions of years ago. This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft entering interstellar space, or the space between stars. ![]()
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