A Brief History Of Voyager 1 Not Quite Exiting The Solar System

A Brief History Of Voyager 1 Not Quite Exiting The Solar System

You may have heard that Voyager 1 has exited the Solar System. And that it hasn’t. This is a chronicle of that probe’s greatest journey in headlines, including a few of our own.

December 8, 2011

NASA’s Voyager 1 has reached the very fringes of our solar system, and is preparing to leave for good [io9]

June 13, 2012

Get Ready, Because Voyager I Is *This Close* to Leaving Our Solar System [The Atlantic]

December 13, 2012

Voyager 1 is leaving the solar system, but the journey continues [The Conversation]

Mar 20, 2013

Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have Left the Solar System (Update: No We Haven’t) [Gizmodo]

Report: Humanity Leaves the Solar System — Or Maybe Not [TIME]

Voyager 1 zips into solar system dispute [USA Today]

Voyager Solar System ‘exit’ debated [BBC News]

NASA: Voyager 1 Has Not Left Our Solar System — Yet [Mashable]

March 22, 2013

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April 13, 2014

Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System [The Omega, the student news site of Oratory Prep]

May 12, 2013

Recent Voyager 1 data indicate that on 25 August 2012 at a distance of 121.7 AU from the Sun, sudden and unprecedented intensity changes were observed in anomalous and galactic cosmic rays [Geophysical Research Letters]

June 27, 2013

NASA’s distant scout: Voyager 1 reaches edge of solar system [Computerworld]

NASA confirms Voyager 1 has left the solar system [circa]

Aug 15, 2013

Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System, Says New Study [University of Maryland]

Voyager left solar system last year, new research shows [Reuters]

Debate roils: Has NASA’s Voyager spaceship left our solar system — or not? [Network World]

August 16, 2013

Paper: Voyager 1 Leaves Solar System [Voice of America]

August 22, 2013

Magnetic bubbles may mean Voyager 1 has left the Solar System [Nature]

Sept 12, 2013

It’s Official: Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System [Gizmodo]

Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space [NASA]

In a Breathtaking First, NASA’s Voyager 1 Exits the Solar System [The New York Times]

Voyager Has Left The Solar System (This Time For Real!) [NPR]

Voyager 1 really has left the solar system… probably [Ars Technica]

September 13, 2013

Stop Saying Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System [Motherboard]

September 16, 2013

Voyager 1 Leaves Solar System [The Onion]

October 2, 2013

Voyager 1 becomes first human-made object to leave solar system [CNN]

December 3, 2013

Voyager May Still Be Inside The Solar System [Inside Science]

July 8, 2014

To infinity and beyond! Voyager 1 is indeed in interstellar space [ZDNet]

July 9, 2014

Solar ‘tsunami’ helps Nasa confirm that Voyager 1 has made it into interstellar space [The Daily Mail]

July 11, 2014

Nasa confirms that the Voyager 1 probe has entered interstellar space (again) [The Independent]

July 23, 2014

Scientists doubt whether Voyager 1 really left the solar system [Times of India]

Voyager spacecraft might not have reached interstellar space [American Geophysical Union]

Picture: A Brief History of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2


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