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NASA's Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space
For the second time in history, a human-made object has reached the space between the stars. NASA's Voyager 2 probe now has exited the heliosphere - the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by the Sun.
Members of NASA's Voyager team will discuss the findings at a news conference at 11 a.m. EST (8 a.m. PST) today at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Washington. The news conference will stream live on the agency's website.
Comparing data from different instruments aboard the trailblazing spacecraft, mission scientists determined the probe crossed the outer edge of the heliosphere on Nov. 5. This boundary, called the heliopause, is where the tenuous, hot solar wind meets the cold, dense interstellar medium. Its twin, Voyager 1, crossed this boundary in 2012, but Voyager 2 carries a working instrument that will provide first-of-its-kind observations of the nature of this gateway into interstellar space.
Voyager 2 now is slightly more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from Earth. Mission operators still can communicate with Voyager 2 as it enters this new phase of its journey, but information - moving at the speed of light - takes about 16.5 hours to travel from the spacecraft to Earth. By comparison, light traveling from the Sun takes about eight minutes to reach Earth.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Monday December 10 2018, @10:31PM (8 children)
Didn't he already send his love?
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(Score: 3, Touché) by bob_super on Monday December 10 2018, @10:54PM (6 children)
*Citation needed*
(not from fairy tales books)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @11:57PM (3 children)
I'm sure she's up there, somewhere, shouting down how much she loves us, wondering why we can't hear her.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 11 2018, @12:37AM (1 child)
She knows why you can't hear her. It's because men never listen.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday December 11 2018, @01:47PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 11 2018, @12:57AM
Because it makes your head explode ...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Tuesday December 11 2018, @03:19PM
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Evidence that Jesus existed and walked the earth? There is more evidence for that than we have evidence that Julius Ceasar ever existed.
You can believe about Jesus what you want.
It's not a debate I'm going to get in to. That debate like talking to a rabid Trump supporter. (pardon the redundancy)
For your amusement, I'll leave a quote from Luke 16:27-31. [blueletterbible.org]
Point being: no amount of historical text, no matter from what book, what author, historian, etc, would be convincing.
So there is really nothing of substance to discuss, IMO. You believe, or you don't. We can agree to disaggree, agreeably.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 11 2018, @11:27PM
Not a problem [soylentnews.org]:
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 11 2018, @02:08PM
Sure. Unfortunately He sent it in a form unsuitable for human consumption, and trying to incorporate it into the human mind caused it to be converted into hate. Hopefully He has learned from His mistake and uses a more suitable form of love in further attempts.