Voyager probe where is it now

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Celebrity Atlanta Black Star. Voyager 1 Distance from Sun This is a real-time indicator of Voyager 1's straight-line distance from the sun in astronomical units AU and either miles mi or kilometers km. Voyager 1 One-Way Light Time This tells how long it would take a radio signal transmitted right now, traveling at the speed of light, to get either from Earth to Voyager 1 or from Voyager 1 to Earth.

The instrument detects charged particles that dominate inside the bubble our sun blows around itself green and charged particles that dominate outside our solar bubble orange. Data from this instrument suggested that Voyager 1 entered interstellar space on Aug. Voyager 2 Distance from the Earth This is a real-time indicator of Voyager 2's distance from Earth in astronomical units AU and either miles mi or kilometers km.

Note: Because Earth moves around the sun faster than Voyager 2 is speeding away from the inner solar system, the distance between Earth and the spacecraft actually decreases at certain times of year. Voyager 2 Distance from the Sun This is a real-time indicator of Voyager 2's distance from the sun in astronomical units AU and either miles mi or kilometers km. But with observations like this one, scientists have found a way to use Voyager 1 to continually monitor that density—over 13 billion miles away from us.

In about years, scientists expect, Voyager 1 will start to enter the inner edge of the Oort cloud, that shroud of comets which stretches as far as several light-years away. The probe is quite literally living on borrowed time. As a result, Voyager 1 is starting to lose fuel.

Scientists are already having to make choices about which parts of the probe they should keep functional. Contact the author here. The quasar J is 13 billion light-years away from Earth.