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Mindwolf · 4266 days ago · link · · parent · post: After 34 years in space, Voyager I has left the solar system as it crosses through the heliosphere.

I just found that out that it is unfortunately a little too early to celebrate.

"The Voyager team is aware of reports today that NASA's Voyager 1 has left the solar system," said Edward Stone, Voyager project scientist based at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. "It is the consensus of the Voyager science team that Voyager 1 has not yet left the solar system or reached interstellar space."

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AlderaanDuran · 4266 days ago · link ·

This. They (the media) have been claiming it left the solar system for like 5 years now. But the medium between our inner-solar system and interstellar space is a big one, it also grows and shrinks in size based on the solar cycles. It will probably be a few more years before it's officially out of our solar system and truly in interstellar space.