The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Voyager 1 probe has picked up a strange "hum" coming from outside our solar system. Launched back in 1977, Voyager 1 is [.]
Voyager space probe detects eerie interstellar hum 14 billion miles from Earth
After 44 years the spacecraft – about the size of a small car – is finally clear of the Sun s influence and its instruments have detected the background noise of the galaxy
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Spacecraft traveling beyond solar system detects hum emanating from deep space
and last updated 2021-05-12 14:13:45-04
Researchers say that a NASA spacecraft currently traveling beyond the solar system has detected a constant hum emanating from deep space.
According to a new research study published Monday, the faint but constant vibrations were recorded by Voyager 1, a spacecraft launched by NASA in 1977 thatâs still operational and sending signals back to Earth.
Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter and Saturn in 1979 and 1980, and has continued its journey into the final frontier. In 2012, scientists confirmed that probe had left the heliosphere and entered interstellar space.
TORONTO Launched 44 years ago, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is now the most distant human-made object in space – and it has sent back some new findings from past the edge of our solar system. Travelling at approximately 61,152 kilometres per hour, Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter in 1979, then Saturn in late 1980, and has now crossed through the heliopause, the solar system’s border with interstellar space, also called the interstellar medium. A new study led by Cornell University and published in the journal Nature Astronomy details how Voyager 1’s instruments have detected the “constant drone of interstellar gas” or plasma waves, according to a release.