Tag: solar system
Space shocker – Voyager probe finds that Solar System isn't round
Ancient space probes sent out on a long-distance research mission during the 1970s are continuing to send back valuable data 30 years after they first launched. The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft have each now entered a vast region of space on the very edge of the solar system, a point where the solar wind blowing outward meets the interstellar wind blowing in.
That's no moon! It's a plutoid
For today’s little nugget of space news, we turn our eyes away from the red planet to one a bit smaller, darker and colder: Pluto…