Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space: Scientists detect plasma density jump – The Bisouv Network

Voyager 1 has a companion in the realm of the stars.
Researchers at the University of Iowa report that the spacecraft Voyager 2 has entered the interstellar medium (ISM), the region of space outside the bubble-shaped boundary produced by wind streaming outward from the sun. Voyager 2, thus, becomes the second human-made object to journey out of our sun’s influence, following Voyager 1’s solar exit in 2012.
In a new study, the researchers confirm Voyager 2’s passage on Nov. 5, 2018, into the ISM…

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