Voyager 2’s First Reports from Interstellar Space Surprise Scientists

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Voyager 2 passes into interstellar space in this artist’s illustration. (Credit: NASA)

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft crossed into interstellar space last November. Now, one year later, scientists have published the first results from the data Voyager 2 gathered as it passed from the sun’s sphere of influence and into interstellar space.

In some ways, what Voyager 2 experienced was surprisingly different from what Voyager 1 found when it passed into interstellar space in 2012. These latest

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