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About Voyager Is Drifting Toward a Region We Barely Understand

Hey guys! We’re now live on Spotify 🎧 Right now, a machine older than your parents is falling through a region of space where the rules of physics don't behave the way we expect. It is nearly 17 billion miles from Earth, moving through darkness no human eye has ever seen. NASA built it to last 4 years. It has survived 49. This is Voyager, the fastest object humans have ever launched, drifting into a zone so strange that scientists still argue about what it actually is. In the next few minutes we go there. We will stand at the invisible edge of the sun's power, feel the sudden jolt when the universe outside changed in an instant, and listen to a sound Voyager captured that no one expected to hear, the hum of interstellar gas itself. Before we go, if you want to watch this journey before anyone else, we started a podcast on Spotify. Scan the code on screen or tap the link below to watch new episodes early, completely free. Now hold on. What Voyager found out

Voyager Is Drifting Toward a Region We Barely Understand is presented by Late Science. Its listed runtime is 127 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.

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Title
Voyager Is Drifting Toward a Region We Barely Understand
Category
Society
Runtime
127 minutes
Language
English
Publisher
Late Science

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