12.09 NASA Confirms Voyager Spacecraft Has Left Solar System
MOSCOW, September 12 (RIA Novosti) The Voyager 1 space probe has left our solar system and entered interstellar space, NASA said Thursday after analyzing recent data from the crafts sensors.
Scientists earlier said Voyager 1, launched about 36 years ago, had already left the heliosphere a bubble of charged particles surrounding our solar system that stretches far beyond planetary systems and entered interstellar space, a galaxy area not occupied by stars or their planetary systems.
However, NASA denied that earlier report, saying there was not enough evidence to substantiate the claim.
Now that we have new, key data, we believe this is humankind's historic leap into interstellar space, Voyager project scientist Ed Stone said. The Voyager team needed time to analyze those observations and make sense of them. But we can now answer the question we've all been asking:
