Voyager says goodbye to Solar System: "Voyager says goodbye to Solar System Updated 10:40 06 November 03 NewScientist.com news service
The most distant man-made object - the Voyager 1 spacecraft - is finally leaving the Solar System. Astronomers think the probe has reached a boundary where the Sun's influence starts to wane.
The spacecraft has just entered a region no one has ever explored before, according to Voyager project scientist Edward Stone, at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. 'This is a very exciting time,' he told a NASA news conference in Washington DC. 'Voyager is beginning to explore the final frontier of the Solar System.'"
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