NASA's Voyager spacecraft explores solar system's edge

Dec. 5, 2011

A long-running NASA spacecraft that’s been exploring the fringes of the solar system has entered new territory.

The space agency said Monday the Voyager 1 spacecraft is in a new region of the solar system that’s different than what it’s been studying the past five years.

New evidence presented at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco shows Voyager 1 has reached a point where the sun has little influence.

Voyager 1 still has a little ways to go before it leaves the solar system and enters interstellar space — or the space between stars. the rest

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