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Voyager Spacecraft Reveals Solar System Edge

Voyager 2’s journey toward interstellar space has revealed surprising insights into the energy and magnetic forces at the solar system’s outer edge, and confirmed the solar system’s squashed shape.

Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 continue to send data to Earth more than thirty years after they first launched. During the 1990s, Voyager 1 became the farthest manmade object in space.

Each spacecraft has now crossed the edge of the solar system, known as termination shock, where the outbound solar wind collides with inbound energetic particles from interstellar space. The termination shock surrounds the solar system and encloses a bubble called the heliosphere.