Hubble Sightlines For Voyager Probes
by Nasa, Esa, And Z. Levy (stsci)/science Photo Library
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Hubble Sightlines For Voyager Probes
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Nasa, Esa, And Z. Levy (stsci)/science Photo Library
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Hubble sightlines for Voyager probes, illustration. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is looking along the paths of NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft as they journey through the solar system and into interstellar space. Hubble is gazing at two sight lines (the twin cone-shaped features) along each spacecraft's path. The telescope's goal is to help astronomers map interstellar structure along each spacecraft's star-bound route. Each sight line stretches several light years to nearby stars (four named here). Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause, the outer edge of the heliosphere boundary, in August 2012. Voyager 2 crossed the heliopause in November 2018. The probes were launched from Earth in 1977, and are now the most distant man-made objects.
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September 26th, 2019
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