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Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, has reached a new milestone in its quest to leave the Solar System. Now 17.4bn km (10.8bn miles) from home, the veteran probe has detected a distinct change in the flow of particles that surround it. These particles, which emanate from the Sun, are no longer travelling outwards but are moving sideways. It means Voyager must be very close to making the jump to interstellar space - the space between the stars.

"We have gotten to the point where the wind from the Sun, which until now has always had an outward motion, is no longer moving outward; it is only moving sideways so that it can end up going down the tail of the heliosphere, which is a comet-shaped-like object," said Dr Stone, who is based at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. This phenomenon is a consequence of the wind pushing up against the matter coming from other stars. The boundary between the two is the "official" edge of the Solar System - the heliopause. Once Voyager crosses over, it will be in interstellar space. "Here was Voyager, a spacecraft that has been a workhorse for 33 years, showing us something completely new again."

Voyager 1 is racing on towards the heliopause at 17km/s. Dr Stone expects the cross-over to occur within the next few years.

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i become more interested in cosmology and stuff every time i read articles like this. it's only a matter of time before i go on a library binge.
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LONDON, June 15, 2012 (Reuters) — The Voyager 1 space probe has reached the edge of the solar system, extending its record for being the most distant man-made object in space.

According to a statement from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the spacecraft is sending back data to Earth showing a sharp increase in charged particles that originate from beyond the solar system. "Voyager scientists looking at this rapid rise draw closer to an inevitable but historic conclusion - that humanity's first emissary to interstellar space is on the edge of our solar system," NASA said in the statement.

Voyager 1, along with its sister spacecraft Voyager 2, was launched in 1977 and is now about 18 billion kilometers from the Sun. It is moving at a speed of about 17 km per second and it currently takes 16 hours and 38 minutes for data to reach NASA's network on Earth. Voyager 2 is about 15 billion kilometers from the Sun. Between them, the probes have explored all the giant planets of the solar system; Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, as well as 48 of their moons. They both carry a greeting for any extraterrestrial life they may bump into, a phonograph record and 12-inch gold-plated copper disk with sounds and images of life and culture on Earth selected by a group chaired by the famous space scientist Carl Sagan.

The exact position of the edge of the solar system is unclear but another indicator that Voyager has entered interstellar space is expected to be a change in the direction of the magnetic fields around the space craft. NASA scientists are looking at data from the craft to see if this predicted change has occurred.

"The laws of physics say that someday Voyager will become the first human-made object to enter interstellar space, but we still do not know exactly when that someday will be," said Stone. "The latest data indicate that we are clearly in a new region where things are changing more quickly. It is very exciting. We are approaching the solar system's frontier."

The plutonium power sources on the Voyager probes are designed to last until 2025. When they die, the probes will keep hurtling through space towards other stars in the Milky Way but they will no longer transmit data back to Earth.

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i become more interested in cosmology and stuff every time i read articles like this. it's only a matter of time before i go on a library binge.

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Here's the Voyager in the Delta Quadrant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tex8WgdyS8

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Here's the Voyager in the Delta Quadrant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tex8WgdyS8

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i become more interested in cosmology and stuff every time i read articles like this. it's only a matter of time before i go on a library binge.

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i become more interested in cosmology and stuff every time i read articles like this. it's only a matter of time before i go on a library binge.

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watch youtube videos of Neil deGrasse Tyson

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A normal person wouldn't say that in real life because it's ridiculous and insulting. Yet here you are spouting the most hateful garbage that your demons can muster out of your darkened soul. All because of the internet.

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http://youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g
carl sagan owns too
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http://youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g
carl sagan owns too

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A normal person wouldn't say that in real life because it's ridiculous and insulting. Yet here you are spouting the most hateful garbage that your demons can muster out of your darkened soul. All because of the internet.

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this thread is victory.
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i become more interested in cosmology and stuff every time i read articles like this. it's only a matter of time before i go on a library binge.

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the library is grotesque. i'm sure some goofs wipe their asses on some of the pages before returning their books. i've seen some odd stains.


http://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Time-Stephen-Hawking/dp/0553380168/

http://www.amazon.com/A-Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/076790818X/

http://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Carl-Sagan/dp/0345331354/


http://www.amazon.com/The-Fabric-Cosmos-Texture-Reality/dp/0375727205/
(this book was also made into a documentary series you can watch an episode here http://youtu.be/lZRKHUVnewc )

http://www.amazon.com/Space-Chronicles-Facing-Ultimate-Frontier/dp/0393082105/

http://www.amazon.com/Universe-Nothing-There-Something-Rather/dp/145162445X/

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A normal person wouldn't say that in real life because it's ridiculous and insulting. Yet here you are spouting the most hateful garbage that your demons can muster out of your darkened soul. All because of the internet.

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Each Voyager space probe carries a gold-plated audio-visual disc in the event that either spacecraft is ever found by intelligent life-forms from other planetary systems.[12] The discs carry photos of the Earth and its lifeforms, a range of scientific information, spoken greetings from people (e.g. the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the President of the United States) and a medley, "Sounds of Earth", that includes the sounds of whales, a baby crying, waves breaking on a shore, and a collection of Earth music, including works by Mozart, Blind Willie Johnson, and Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode".




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Each Voyager space probe carries a gold-plated audio-visual disc in the event that either spacecraft is ever found by intelligent life-forms from other planetary systems.[12] The discs carry photos of the Earth and its lifeforms, a range of scientific information, spoken greetings from people (e.g. the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the President of the United States) and a medley, "Sounds of Earth", that includes the sounds of whales, a baby crying, waves breaking on a shore, and a collection of Earth music, including works by Mozart, Blind Willie Johnson, and Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode".

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if i had a nickel for every time something at the library was covered in feces...man i dont even know

your toilet is covered in feces but that doesn't stop you from sticking your head in it

the toilet is where I do all my heavy reading, yes