NASA’s Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-voyager-2-probe-enters-interstellar-space

NASA's Voyager 2 has recently exited the heliosphere and is now in a place in space that is between stars, and therefore outside the magnetic field of our sun.  This is the second time in history that a man-made object has gone beyond the heliosphere, the first being Voyager 1. 

I find this to be incredible.  Its crazy that NASA can still communicate with an object that far out in space.  The article said that it takes information from the probe 16.5 hours to get back to earth.  I just wonder how far out the probe will go before Earth loses contact with it completely. 

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  1. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2019 at 5:37 PM

    This is cool to think about. I find it very amazing that NASA is able to communicate with an object that is out of our sun's gravitational pull but I can't get reception in my back yard.

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