in September 1977, the Voyager 1 space probe blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, bound for the outer planets and beyond. having passed Jupiter, Saturn and even Pluto, it is now sailing for truly deep space: the empty void between star systems. recent data from the probe – which now takes 16 hours to reach us – indicates that Voyager has passed into a zone where the solar wind is blowing sideways, and may soon cease altogether as the lonely spacecraft plunges beyond the influence of our sun

_artwork: NASA

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