Voyager 1 Has Finally Left the Solar System For The 10th Time.
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[QUOTE][QUOTE][IMG]http://images.sciencedaily.com/2013/08/130815133726-large.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]Voyager 1 appears to have at long last left our solar system and entered interstellar space, says a University of Maryland-led team of researchers.
They have constructed a model of the outer edge of the Solar System that fits recent observations, both expected and unexpected.
Source:
[URL]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130815133726.htm[/URL]
Journal:
M. Swisdak, J. F. Drake, M. Opher. A POROUS, LAYERED HELIOPAUSE. DOI: [URL]http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/774/1/L8[/URL][/QUOTE]
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what
Does the size of our solar system keep changing or what?? I'm so confused
[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;41867685]i
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Does the size of our solar system keep changing or what?? I'm so confused[/QUOTE]
It's more just that no one can really agree exactly where our solar system ends, and if Voyager truly has left it yet.
[QUOTE=yerer;41867712]It's more just that no one can really agree exactly where our solar system ends, and if Voyager truly has left it yet.[/QUOTE]Scientist and their debates aye?
[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;41867685]i
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Does the size of our solar system keep changing or what?? I'm so confused[/QUOTE]
it keeps going into a wormhole and looping back around
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;41867716]Scientist and their debates aye?[/QUOTE]
It's similar to distinguishing between where Earth's atmosphere ends and space begins. There is no line we can draw to clearly differentiate the two where they meet.
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;41867716]Scientist and their debates aye?[/QUOTE]
From what I've read from other articles, they're establishing the boundary based on when the sun's magnetic* bubble field is virtually non-existent.
dw he'll come crawling back soon
I thought they considered it fully out of the solar system when it passed through the bow shock? that seems a pretty good way to measure it
Can we just say the solar system covers the entire Milky way so we don't have to read about voyager leaving every whenever?
Guys, Voyager keeps hitting the edge of the screen. Screenwrap, duh.
this makes my pussy wet imagine what data it will collect!
It needs more power to the deflector dish
its so amazing that something made 35 years ago is still flying through space and we can still communicate with it
[QUOTE=Hendo;41868501]its so amazing that something made 35 years ago is still flying through space and we can still communicate with it[/QUOTE]
If we ever got any pictures of it, it'll probably look like a piece of flying junk
[QUOTE=shian;41868572]If we ever got any pictures of it, it'll probably look like a piece of flying junk[/QUOTE]It would probably look quite much the same as it did when we packed it in the payload fairing
[QUOTE=shian;41868572]If we ever got any pictures of it, it'll probably look like a piece of flying junk[/QUOTE]
There was nothing on it's path yet that could harm, corrode or weather it. It was also built to last.
[QUOTE=TheHydra;41867729]it keeps going into a wormhole and looping back around[/QUOTE]
then it crashes in China
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Does the size of our solar system keep changing or what?? I'm so confused[/QUOTE]
Voyager gets very home-sick. Poor little thing.
In two years, we'll lose communications with it. Within in a few seconds, it appears on the exact opposite side where it was last seen.
[QUOTE=Kfacat;41868362]Can we just say the solar system covers the entire Milky way so we don't have to read about voyager leaving every whenever?[/QUOTE]
What the hell kind of sense does that make
Our solar system border is after pluto's orbit
[QUOTE=BCell;41871126]Our solar system border is after pluto's orbit[/QUOTE]
There's stuff that orbits our sun further out that than. By a long shot.
[QUOTE=BCell;41871126]Our solar system border is after pluto's orbit[/QUOTE]
Why not Makemake, or Eris, or Sedna?
[QUOTE=Hans-Gunther 3.;41870663]then it crashes in China[/QUOTE]
then china steals our 35 year old technology
Personally I'll wait until it's one light day away from the Sun (13 years from now).
[QUOTE=BCell;41871126]Our solar system border is after pluto's orbit[/QUOTE]What about the Kuiper belt? The Oort cloud? Heliopause? All of these are marks of the Sun's gravitational and electromagnetic effect.
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