Topic: Voyager 1

By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 7, 2011

Voyager 1 Has Entered Cosmic Purgatory

It only took 34 years, but NASA's deep space probe is finally entering uncharted territory on the far edges of our solar system, just before entering the rest of the Milky Way galaxy.

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