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Voyager 1 is 43 years old, 22 billion km away and can still phone home
- Friday | 14th May, 2021
Now, Voyager 1 is over 22 billion kilometres from Earth and flying through interstellar space. Scientists, in 1977, believed that the edge of the solar system, the heliopause, was about 10 AU (the distance between Earth and the Sun) beyond Saturn. That Voyager 1 is still feeling the sun from that far away makes you wonder about the forces at work in the Universe. Mobile phones were still in the future, and smartphones were still far, far away. It is also sad because Voyager 1 will, well, die.
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