Voyager 1 Has Apparently Left the Solar System [CORRECTED]

[pokerfan]

Unlike pregnancy, it's all about definitions and semantics...

Correction, March 20, 2013: I wrote the piece below after reading a press release from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and after reading the professional science journal paper announcing the results. Just after posting this I received a press release from NASA/JPL quoting Ed Stone, the Voyager project scienist, saying "It is the consensus of the Voyager science team that Voyager 1 has not yet left the solar system or reached interstellar space. In December 2012, the Voyager science team reported that Voyager 1 is within a new region called 'the magnetic highway' where energetic particles changed dramatically. A change in the direction of the magnetic field is the last critical indicator of reaching interstellar space and that change of direction has not yet been observed."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/20/voyager_1_the_spacecraft_has_apparently_left_the_solar_system.html

[leftyohiolib]

1. so elvis has NOT left the building

[Bay Boy]

2. Well, now my awe has changed to 'big whoop'

Kidding it's still awesome.

[reteachinwi]

3. "mmbillions and Billions" as Carl Sagan would say

"of miles to go before..." the lovely, dark, and deep of interstellar space claims the flower of Voyager's achievement. Sometimes we do thing right.

I couldn't resist.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=8Lm6pEhykhs&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D8Lm6pEhykhs