Voyager 1 Has Left The Building

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Voyager 1 Becomes First Man-Made Object to Reach Interstellar Space

Image: An artists conception of the space around Voyager 1. NASA/JPL-Caltech
www.NASA.gov[*2]

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, which launched in 1977, has officially entered interstellar space and is now more than 19 billion kilometers from our sun, nearly 130 times farther away than our planet. [read more on WIRED.com[*1] ]

Source WIRED[*3]

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[*1] http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/voyager-left-solar-system/
[*2] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/multimedia/pia17462.html#.UjMk2D-qmes
[*3] http://www.wired.com/