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NASA’s Voyager 2 makes milestone move into interstellar space

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More than four decades after its launching, NASA’s famed spacecraft Voyager 2 made a milestone move into interstellar space — beyond the realm of the…
More than four decades after its launching, NASA’s famed spacecraft Voyager 2 made a milestone move into interstellar space — beyond the realm of the sun’s influence, the agency announced on Monday.
The Voyager 2, launched in 1977, is renowned as the only probe ever to study Neptune and Uranus during planetary flybys.
Now it’s accomplished an even more remarkable feat, exiting the heliosphere — the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by the Sun — and entering the space between the stars, NASA said in a statement.

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