Image: Space.com
Voyager 1, a space telescope launched in 1977 has
left our solar system, puncturing the heliopause reaching interstellar space on
August 25th, 2012. I thought this was interesting to add to the Adventure through
Space blog because it is literally on an adventure. Just how big is the universe? Well the venture that voyager took was about 122 astronomical units
away from the Sun where 1 AU is 93 million miles (150 million Km)! Voyager is
so far from home that a radio signal that travels 186,000 miles per second
takes 17 hours to reach Earth from Voyager 1. This is a huge achievement for
the NASA program. Congratulations to all who has a part in this. I want to see
what Voyager discovers next. Although it took voyager nearly 40 years to get
from Earth to where it is now, I probably won’t be around for the next
"big" thing.
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