The Voyager Journey to Interstellar Space

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Explorers of the Universe talk by Edward Stone, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, former director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and chief scientist for the Voyager Mission.

Launched in 1977 to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, the two Voyager spacecraft continued their journeys beyond the planets as they searched for the edge of the heliosphere, the giant bubble of wind surrounding the sun. Beyond the bubble lies interstellar space, the space between the stars filled with matter from the explosions of other stars and by the magnetic field of the Milky Way. After a thirty-five year journey taking it eleven billion miles from the sun, Voyager 1 became the first human-made object to enter interstellar space. Voyager’s journey of discovery continues as it begins to explore the space between the stars.

Sponsored by the Sheraton Waikiki and the UH Institute for Astronomy.

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