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NASA Spacecraft Embarks on Historic Journey Into Interstellar Space
This artist's concept shows the Voyager 1 spacecraft entering the space between stars. Interstellar space is dominated by plasma, ionized gas (illustrated here as brownish haze), that was thrown off by giant stars millions of years ago.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun.
From Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
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