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NASA probe hears “shriek” in space as it leaves solar system
By Rob Waugh
A strange, unearthly “shriek” greeted NASA’s Voyager I spacecraft as it became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space.
A strange rising “howl” was detected by instruments aboard the 36-year-old probe, which has travelled 12 billion miles away from our sun.
The sound was transmitted back to scientists on Earth, over a distance so vast radio waves take 17 hours to reach us. Science site iO9 described the sounds as “creepy” and “wraithlike”.
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NASA announced this week that the tiny probe has now left the “solar bubble” – a historic moment which marks our species entry into interstellar space.
The “howls” and “shrieks” detected by Voyager’s instruments – actually waves in plasma in space – provided proof.
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