Voyager 2 Has Found Something Weird In Outer Space!

Traveling at a distance of over 11.2 billion miles from the Earth, Voyager 2 spacecraft has found something weird in outer space. It has found that the density of outer space is increasing. This has challenged the notion that space is a vacuum.

Voyager 2 was launched in July 1977 as a part of NASA's Voyager Program. During its solar system voyage, Voyager 2 explored Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. In 2018, Voyager 2 escaped the boundary of Sun's influence and became the second spacecraft to enter interstellar space after its twin counterpart Voyager 1. Since then, Voyager 2 has been beaming back information about the space beyond the Solar System.

The recent discovery about the increasing space density has surprised everyone. This is not the first time that such an increase in density has been detected. In 2013, Voyager 1 made a similar observation, but at a different location. The new findings have not only confirmed Voyager 1's observations but have also hinted that an increased surface density might be a widespread feature of Very Local Interstellar medium (VLIM).

The VLIM is the space outside the heliopause, where the heliopause is the Solar System's edge that the Voyagers have crossed.

Several theories have been put forth time and again to explain this density increase. One theoretical model suggests that the increase might be due to interstellar magnetic fields becoming stronger as they bend over heliopause. Another model predicts that the interstellar wind slows down as they approach heliopause and this builds up the density.

However, more data is needed to untangle the mystery of increased density.

[TheSecretsoftheUniverse]

What Voyager 2 saw in its 43-year journey in space?

[jeffdunnell]

The woman who built the scientific instrument modules for both voyager1 and voyager2 passed away 8/17/2020, may her accomplishments travel the cosmos forever

[cgirl]

43 years and it's about 17 light hours away. Space is big.

[johntillman]

Getting all this information from deep space makes me question my cell phone provider.

[annic]

This made me a little teary eye. Forty three years this magnificent transmitter has been out in space kollekting data. This beautiful flyer was made out pure love for our knowledge about the great beyond.

[atilllathehun]

It is truly astonishing that we are still getting useful data from Voyager, not just because of the distances involved but for the time it has been doing so. Amazing.

[shashwatdixit]

We aren't supposed to travel too far in the simulation map. That's why the space keeps getting denser, we closing in on the edge of the playable map area

[michaelkiddle]

I remember when they were launched, back then it was like a sci-fi movie.
I am impressed that they have achieved so much 🚀🚀🚀🚀

[bhbluebird]

I remember this thing taking off when I was still in high school and here it is, still making discoveries over 40 years later.

[deepalisingh]

this made me so emotional. go safely little buddy, we're all rooting for you

[negativeplayer]

The guys who calculated the trajectory of the spacecraft are godly. The woman who made the instruments is a genius!

[Sam-hfnq]

They just don't make 'em like they used to. Like an old Toyota Land Cruiser out in the cosmos.

[michaelrainone]

I gotta tell you that the people who research, build, launch and monitor these space probes are truly amazing!! Your achievements and discoveries open up new avenues of research and science.Carry on enlightening us.Please!! Best wishes from me in Canada.🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂.

[adithyas]

Just imagining wildly:
This could still go on and on forever even after the end of earth!!!

[graemepennell]

Its always nice to know that when human species are long gone, this device shall still be zooming around the universe.

[mohdrizaramlee]

Billions of miles away & it still made itself heard and communicable.
Meanwhile on earth, my wife who's just next room... the eeriest of silence.

[ZebraActual]

I thought they were going to say it found a bunch of beacons just outside our solar system broadcasting a warning: Keep Out! & Don't Feed the Animals!"

[derrickcooper]

It took dam near all my life to this point to actually say that the voyager program did exactly what it was intended to do... I'm glad humanity was able to tweak its life a little longer. As I said in the 80s, Space is unimaginably, extremely infinitely HUGE!

[mikeg]

In 2018, Voyager 2 escaped the boundary of the Sun's influence. It began dressing more cheerfully, started reading a variety of books and began learning French. Voyager 2 was happy it finally escaped the Sun's influence, prior that it sat around hoping to not disappoint the sun and fearing rebuke from it.

[onlyscams]

100, 000 years from now some alien will recover this probe and say “oh look how cute, aliens built this”