Voyager 2’s Discoveries From Interstellar Space
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/science/voyager-2-interstellar-solar-wind.html
Source: By Kenneth Chang. The New York Times.
Excerpt: The Voyager 2 spacecraft burst out of the bubble of gases expanding from the sun and into the wild of the Milky Way a year ago. It was the second spacecraft to cross that boundary and directly observe the interstellar medium. Its faster-moving twin, Voyager 1, made the crossing six years earlier, in August 2012. Launched 42 years ago, when Jimmy Carter was president, the twin spacecraft have persisted far longer than envisioned, as has their ability to send scientific findings home to Earth. In a series of papers published on Monday in Nature Astronomy [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0928-3], scientists report what Voyager 2 observed at the boundary of the solar wind’s bubble and beyond....
Source: By Kenneth Chang. The New York Times.
Excerpt: The Voyager 2 spacecraft burst out of the bubble of gases expanding from the sun and into the wild of the Milky Way a year ago. It was the second spacecraft to cross that boundary and directly observe the interstellar medium. Its faster-moving twin, Voyager 1, made the crossing six years earlier, in August 2012. Launched 42 years ago, when Jimmy Carter was president, the twin spacecraft have persisted far longer than envisioned, as has their ability to send scientific findings home to Earth. In a series of papers published on Monday in Nature Astronomy [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0928-3], scientists report what Voyager 2 observed at the boundary of the solar wind’s bubble and beyond....