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Nasa's Voyager 1 has entered a new region of space between the Solar System and interstellar space in what Nasa has described as a 'cosmic purgatory'.

Still ticking after 30-odd years...

ShanwickOceanic wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8940350/Nasas-Voyager-1-in-cosmic-purgatory-on-verge-of-entering-Milky-Way.html

Nasa's Voyager 1 has entered a new region of space between the Solar System and interstellar space in what Nasa has described as a 'cosmic purgatory'.

Still ticking after 30-odd years...

That's what I'd call a solid piece of technology.

"Cosmic purgatory"? What is that supposed to mean?

Thorben wrote:That's what I'd call a solid piece of technology.

I didn't realize that no one thought communications with it could be achived at such distances.

Thorben wrote:"Cosmic purgatory"? What is that supposed to mean?

The limits are supposed to be where the effects of the solar wind are 'reversed', and before it enters the space where the interstellar wind is measured.