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Scientists who want to understand what's beyond our solar system have designed an interstellar spacecraft that could go out farther and faster than the famous Voyager probes.
Voyager 1 picks up the 'hum' of interstellar space The hum is a vibration in the interstellar plasma that can give scientists an idea of the density of space our solar system is travelling through Social Sharing CBC Radio · Posted: May 21, 2021 4:13 PM ET | Last Updated: May 21 In an artist's depiction, the Voyager 1 craft continues to cruise through interstellar space.(NASA / JPL)
Interstellar plasma is vibrating out there past the edges of the solar system. An illustration of the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which is traveling through interstellar space. (Image credit: NASA/JPL) Forty-four years after it rocketed off from Earth, the Voyager 1 spacecraft is detecting the background "hum" of interstellar space for the first time. Voyager 1, launched in 1977, left the bounds of the solar system — known as the heliosphere — in 2012. The heliosphere is the bubble of space influenced by solar wind, the stream of charged particles that emanates from the sun. Since popping out ...
Scientists say NASA’s most distant exploring spacecraft has recorded a continuous ‘hum’ beyond our solar system in the area between the stars.
NASA's Voyager 1 Detects A New Humming Sound 14 Billion Miles From Earth: The first continuous measurement of the density of matter in interstellar space.