Awesome! finally got to see who has a crush on me.... So glad I read the down south advice thread....
Here is the picture I posted -- I can't remember what site I used to host it, but they obviously got bought out. Mainly just bumped this as a bit of fun since it took about a decade for Voyager to leave the solar system once NASA thought it was close... Closure.
Just to be a geek but Voyager 1 hasn't left the Solar System since that extends out to the edge of Oort Cloud. That is almost a light year out and will take thousands of years before it get's past it.
ELI5 - How come some asteroid hasn't hit this thing ? And how come it hasn't got sucked up in some interstellar objects gravity?
How come your car hasn't crashed into another car? How come you haven't gotten sucked into a river or an ocean, or even been burned by the sun? A woman isn't driving it.
I thought "interstellar space" was considered outside of the solar system. From my understanding it is no longer under the effects of the sun and its forces.
Are you referencing that trippy movie with Morpheus called "Event Horizon"? Watched it on Netflix the other night and was like
There is some speculation that the Oort Cloud may extend out much further and interact with the cloud surrounding Alpha Centauri A/B and Proxima Centauri.
I don't mind calling it "outside the solar system." That's a lot better than knowing when to use apostrophes properly. Mister "just to be a geek"... pfffttt...
It is outside the Heliosphere where the Solar wind dominates but not outside of Solar system which includes the Oort Cloud which is in orbit around the Sun.
Why were you confused? The ship went to Hell (or an interstellar version of it anyways) and came back sentient (and really, really evil). That was a great movie.
Despite the hype -- Voyager is leaving a part of the of the solar system influenced by solar wind, but is far from leaving the sun's gravitational influence. _____ In 1950, Dutch astronomer Jan Oort studied the orbits of 18 comets to extrapolate that they came from a deep freezer reservoir of over 1 trillion comets located halfway to the nearest star. Despite the recent hoopla of Voyager 1 “leaving” the solar system, comet ISON has really never left the sun’s gravitational influence (nor has Voyager). For the past 5 million years it [Comet ISON] has been falling straight toward the sun on a bull’s-eye intercept. The climax of this multi-millenium space odyssey is now just a few weeks away. If ISON survives the sun’s dragon breath, it won’t return again for another 12 million years. So grab your binoculars and catch it while you can! full article
