NASA\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached the edge of the solar system and will enter interstellar space in the near future.<\/p>\n
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The Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a previously unknown region between the outermost part of the solar system and interstellar space and is about to leave the solar system, new research shows.\n<\/p>\n
Voyager 1 reached an area of space called the magnetic highway on August 25, according to three new papers about the spacecraft published online Thursday by the journal Science<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n
The magnetic highway is a region on the outer edge of the heliosheath where charged particles travel into and out of the heliosphere — the massive bubble of space surrounded by the heliosheath that contains the solar system.\n<\/p>\n
Although scientists are still uncertain about the distance that Voyager 1 has to cover to reach interstellar space, they believe it will not take too long.\n<\/p>\n
The heliosphere extends at least 8 billion miles beyond all the planets in our solar system.\n<\/p>\n
Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 as part of the Voyager Program and the Voyager Interstellar Mission. It is now more than 11 billion miles away from the Sun.\n<\/p>\n
The spacecraft\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s main mission was to study the planetary systems of Jupiter and Saturn, but after its sibling probe, Voyager 2, made a close flyby of Neptune, NASA extended the two probes’ missions to study the outer boundaries of the solar system, and perhaps beyond.\n<\/p>\n
Voyager 2 is about nine billion miles away from the Sun.\n<\/p>\n
Voyager 1 will be the first man-made object to leave the solar system and enter the wider reaches of the Milky Way.\n<\/p>\n
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