Two Interstellar Travelers

diagram of bubble-shaped areas around sun with two spacecraft just outside them
December 10, 2018
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech
PIA NumberPIA22835
Language
  • english

This illustration shows the position of NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes, outside of the heliosphere, a protective bubble created by the Sun that extends well past the orbit of Pluto. Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause, or the edge of the heliosphere, in August 2012. Heading in a different direction, Voyager 2 crossed another part of the heliopause in November 2018.