Voyager 1 officially exits our solar system

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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @01:38PM

An anonymous reader writes "A new study released today indicates that the Voyager 1 spacecraft has become the first man-made object to exit our solar system. Instrumentation data sent back to NASA indicate the historic event likely occurred on August 25, 2012, evidenced by drastic changes in radiation levels as the craft ventured past the heliopause. What remains to be seen, however, is whether Voyager 1 has actually made it to true interstellar space, or whether it has entered a separate, undefined region beyond our solar system. Either way, the achievement is truly monumental. "It's outside the normal heliosphere, I would say that. We're in a new region," said Bill Webber, professor emeritus of astronomy at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. "And everything we're measuring is different and exciting.""
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