Solar 'tsunami' helps Nasa confirm that Voyager 1 has made it into interstellar space | Mail Online
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In September 2013 Nasa announced they were pretty sure that Voyager 1, the most distant man-made spacecraft from Earth, had passed into interstellar space.
And now that finding has been confirmed, thanks to a ‘tsunami wave’ of radiation from the sun. The wave vibrated particles in the spacecraft’s vicinity and allowed scientists to calculate that the probe was in a different region of the universe to our own solar system.
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Having passed the outermost planets it is now the furthest man-made object from Earth and continues to send back data as it becomes the first spacecraft ever to enter interstellar space.
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