Dec 10, 2018
WASHINGTON | NASA's Voyager 2 becomes 2nd craft in interstellar space
WASHINGTON | NASA’s Voyager 2 becomes 2nd craft in interstellar space
WASHINGTON — NASA’s Voyager 2 is now the second human-made object to zip away from the sun into the space between the stars.
Voyager 2 last month exited “this bubble that the sun creates around itself,” longtime NASA mission scientist Ed Stone said Monday. The spacecraft is now beyond the outer boundary of the heliosphere, some 11 billion miles (about 18 billion kilometers) from Earth.
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