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Voyager at the Edge: Cosmic Roadtrip Hits Milestone
Posted by Andrew Fazekas on December 6, 2012
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After a 35 year odyssey the plucky little spacecraft Voyager 1 may be zipping through the final boundary that separates our solar system from Interstellar space – the space between the stars, according NASA. Sailing through the outermost reaches of the solar system, mission scientists believe they have detected the telltale signs of Voyager crossing…
Posted by Technically, everything within our solar system could be said to exist in the sun‘s atmosphere. In most cases we call the corona the sun’s upper atmosphere, because that’s the part we see as the faint, outermost halo stretching from the bright orb, usually visible from Earth only during a solar eclipse. (See eclipse pictures from…
