Voyager's controversy

The US Air and Space Flight Voyager (NASA) has entered the interplanetary space last year, becoming the first artificial object to leave the solar system, but this conclusion is still controversial. controversy among experts.

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Scientists have long been anxious to wait for the Voyager to send a signal to detect the magnetic field moving in the opposite direction from the solar system's magnetic field.

However, recent research results show that the scenario is not accurate.

Voyager 1 and twin sisters continue their long journey over the past 36 years - (Photo: spacetoday.org)

'We think that the magnetic field inside the solar system and the interplanetary space are aligned so that the spacecraft can actually cross the boundary without feeling a big change in direction , ' said Reuters. from physicist Marc Swisdak of the University of Maryland (USA).

This means that the Voyager actually entered the interplanetary space last summer after it detected an unexpected drop in charge particles derived from the sun's direction, and a similar increase. Cosmic rays come from space outside the solar system, reported in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

However, not everyone is convinced that Voyager actually made a miracle, becoming the first spacecraft to cross the boundaries of the solar system.

The leader of the Voyager Edward Stone mission, now retired, said the Swisdak group's research results are interesting, but other computer models provide completely different perspectives when interpreting the data. Voyager.

Mr. Stone and other scientists believe that Voyager is in an area not known, called the 'highway from', located between the heliosphere and the interplanetary space.

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were in turn launched in 1977 to serve the mission of studying the outer planets of the solar system.

Voyager 1 is now 120 times the distance from the sun - Earth, while Voyager 2 is moving in the other direction to exit the solar system.