Voyager 1

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Farewell, Frank Drake, Explorer of the Universe

Prakash Chandra 07/09/2022

Frank Drake formulated an equation (which bears his name)...

Voyager 1, Voyager 2, interstellar space, Solar System, Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud, heliopause, Stamatios Krimigis, New Horizons, Pluto, plasma, solar magnetic field, galactic magnetic field, plasma wave subsystem, astronomical unit, electrons, electron density, cosmic radiation, Alpha Centauri, heliosphere,

First Results From Voyager 2, the Spacecraft at the Edge of Interstellar Space

Jatan Mehta 04/11/2019

The twin Voyagers' observations have given us our first...

Great Red Spot, Jupiter, NASA Juno, JIRAM, JunoCam, anticyclone, Sirius, microwave radiometer, Gemini Observatory, Cassini space probe, retrograde orbit, Jupiter south equatorial belt, Voyager 1,

Is the Solar System’s Largest Storm Dying?

Jatan Mehta 13/06/2019

The Great Red Spot is 1.3-times as wide as...

Parker solar probe, BepiColombo, gravity assist, gravitational flyby, NASA MESSENGER, Cassini probe, Voyager 1, interstellar medium, Voyager 2, orbital inclination, ESA Rosetta,

The Simple Physics Trick That’s Allowed Us to Venture Deeper Into Space

Jatan Mehta 30/11/2018

The gravity assist is a versatile instrument in the...

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NASA’s Voyager 2 Probe Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space

Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is a little less...

The Parkes Observatory, New South Wales. Credit: CSIRO/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0

Telescopes Pick up Strange Radio Signals Three Billion Years Old

Prakash Chandra 06/09/2017

What makes the latest FRBs so dramatic is that...