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You are standing at the edge of everything you know, and space itself is on fire. Not flames. Not smoke. A wall of charged particles moving so violently their temperature reads in the hundreds of thousands of degrees. This is the edge of our solar system. A spacecraft older than your parents flew straight through it. We are talking about Voyager 1. Launched in 1977, built with less computing power than a musical greeting card. It just sent back data that broke models scientists had trusted for fifty years. Tonight, we follow it. From the volcanoes of a moon that should not exist, through a river of invisible wind, into a boundary so strange that scientists almost missed it. We will hear a sound recorded fourteen billion miles from home. We will meet a highway made of magnetic fields, connecting two universes of space. And we will stand at a wall of fire that should not be possible. Sources

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Voyager Reached a Boundary We Still Cannot Make Sense Of
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Society
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82 minutes
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English
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Late Science

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