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Voyager 1 is the first object we've ever sent to interstellar space...

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This week, NASA scientists confirmed something that had already been widely suspected: the Voyager 1 probe, nearly 12 billion miles away from Earth, is in interstellar space.

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Voyager 1 is the first object we've ever sent to interstellar space - Vox


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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson was commenting quite a bit about this, recently, in Cosmos.

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  • Profile picture of the author Joe J
    "This is a spacecraft, launched in 1977, that has a computing capability a tiny fraction of your smartphone's and a memory big enough to hold a few thousand words of text. It's now traveled , visited multiple planets, and is still sending back radio signals to its makers here on Earth."

    WOW! That's incredible!
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