Archive for June 21st, 2012

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

Data from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft indicate that the venerable deep-space explorer has encountered a region in space where the intensity of charged particles from beyond our solar system has markedly increased. Voyager scientists looking at this rapid rise draw closer to an inevitable but historic conclusion—that humanity’s first emissary to interstellar space is now at the edge of our [...]