11 years since Voyager 1

Posted by davidsvida on Friday August 25, 2023 @02:33PM
from the nap.nationalacademies.org dept.

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/12675/chapter/16#117

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Re:11 years since Voyager 1 by davidsvida on Friday August 25, 2023 @02:33PM (#37265464)

August 25 marks 11 years since the mission.

This is a good read by Edward C. Stone

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Re:11 years since Voyager 1 by dredmorbius on Friday August 25, 2023 @05:37PM (#37267338)

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Re:11 years since Voyager 1 by russellbeattie on Friday August 25, 2023 @03:03PM (#37265820)

I think it would be interesting to see an image of the night sky that shows the heliospheres of the stars, rather than just the pinpricks of visible light. From the distance of the Voyagers, our sun looks like pretty much all the rest of the stars in the sky, except that its heliosphere is massive - apparently 14 trillion suns could fit into it. Same for gravitational effects - at the scale of space, it's amazing how a single point of light can have such a huge effect on the space around it.

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