In San Francisco yesterday, scientists and officials from NASA announced that Voyager 1 has left the known part of the solar system and now travels across a newly discovered "magnetic highway" at the very edge of the heliosphere. Here, interstellar particles mix with decreasing solar particles, 11 billion miles from Earth.....but it also has a way cooler Twitter than you.
Scientists don't know how long it will take for the probe to cross the so-called "magnetic highway," but they believe it is the last layer of a complex boundary between the region of space under the sun's influence and interstellar space.
Not to be confused, of course, with my bff Viking 1.
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