What Voyager Detected at The Edge of Our Solar System 🎧 Listen to our Calm Space Podcast here: https://ift.tt/Sd8hkCa Have you ever wondered what happens at the very edge of our solar system? Not just the planets we know, but the boundary where the Sun's influence ends and true interstellar space begins. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, two identical spacecraft launched in 1977, were designed for a five year mission to explore Jupiter and Saturn. Nearly fifty years later, they're still operational, billions of miles beyond their original destination, and they discovered something shocking at the heliopause. The boundary wasn't where scientists predicted. The shape was completely wrong. The interstellar medium had unexpected properties. And these twin probes revealed seven major discoveries that rewrote our understanding of where the solar system ends. Here at Calm Space to Sleep, we make documentaries to be experienced, not just watched. Everything moves at a pace that gives y...
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