On this day in 2018 - November 5th - Voyager 2 entered interstellar space.

It was the second spacecraft to cross the heliopause. This is where the tenuous, hot solar wind meets the cold, dense interstellar medium. Voyager 1 crossed this boundary in 2012.


Mona Evans
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