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2 days ago · Scientists call the region of space influenced by the sun the heliosphere – but without an interstellar probe, they don't know much about its shape
4 days ago · Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere.
11 hours ago · So it's perhaps no surprise that the probe recently tied its own world record as the fastest thing human beings have ever made, with a clocked speed of 394,736 miles, or 635,266 kilometers, per hour.
5 days ago · Voyager, either of a pair of robotic U.S. interplanetary probes launched to observe and to transmit information to Earth about the giant planets of the outer solar system and the farthest reaches of the Sun’s sphere of influence. Voyager 1 and 2 were the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space.
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3 days ago · Space exploration is the use of astronomy and space technology to explore outer space. [1] While the exploration of space is currently carried out mainly by astronomers with telescopes, its physical exploration is conducted both by uncrewed robotic space probes and human spaceflight.
9 hours ago · The U.S. space agency recently announced its Parker Solar Probe — the first mission to fly through the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona — matched its own speed record of 394,736 mph (635,266 ...
2 days ago · Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the first sophisticated optical observatory placed into orbit around Earth. Earth’s atmosphere obscures ground-based astronomers’ view of celestial objects by absorbing or distorting light rays from them.
