Voyager probe 'leaves Solar System'

[reggie124]

The Voyager-1 spacecraft has become the first manmade object to leave the Solar System.

Scientists say the probe's instruments indicate it has moved beyond the bubble of hot gas from our Sun and is now moving in the space between the stars.

Launched in 1977, Voyager was sent initially to study the outer planets, but then just kept on going.

Today, the veteran Nasa mission is almost 19 billion km (12 billion miles) from home.

This distance is so vast that it takes 17 hours now for a radio signal sent from Voyager to reach receivers here on Earth.

BBC News - Voyager probe 'leaves Solar System'

 

[reggie124]

Voyager's epic journey: How long would it take you?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21937524

 

[Snake Plissken]

It's funny to thing how high tech that probe was back in 1977, NASA used an Gold LP of various music and sounds on Earth, if it left today it would have a 3D Blu Ray

 

[Firemouth]

The Voyager-1 spacecraft has become the first manmade object to leave the Solar System.

Scientists say the probe's instruments indicate it has moved beyond the bubble of hot gas from our Sun and is now moving in the space between the stars.

Launched in 1977, Voyager was sent initially to study the outer planets, but then just kept on going.

Today, the veteran Nasa mission is almost 19 billion km (12 billion miles) from home.

This distance is so vast that it takes 17 hours now for a radio signal sent from Voyager to reach receivers here on Earth.

BBC News - Voyager probe 'leaves Solar System'

it may have left the "hot bubble of gasses" of our solar system.

but not the influence of our sun. (even the linked artificial says this)

the ort cloud "would appear" to stretch 2 light years from our sun.
and the Ort cloud his held in place by our suns gravity (or the combined gravity of our solar system.)

so "technically" Voyager wont leave the suns influence for several million years yet.