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Voyager Has Still Not Left the Solar System – According to NASA, Voyager 1 will Continue to be in the Solar System for the Next 30,000 Years
Tuesday, September 17, 2013 7:56
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The Voyager 1 space probe, launched in 1977, has officially become the first manmade object to enter insterstellar space (unless there are men on other planets and they’ve done the same thing — it’s possible!). It’s currently floating about 12 billion miles away.
Because space is weird, there is a lot of confusion today, as always, about where exactly Voyager 1 is now. Many headlines have claimed that it has “left the solar system.”
But according to NASA, http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-278 Voyager 1 is still in the solar system and will continue to be in the solar system for the next 30,000 years or so. Get ready for some NASAsplaining:
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Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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