Radio signal from Voyager 1 travelling outside our solar system is seen from Earth for the 1st time

[snagglepuss]

This incredible photo shows radio signals glowing blue from the spacecraft Voyager 1 nearly 12 billion miles away.


Scientists can't actually see the spacecraft but they can detect its radio light.

They used the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) a network of powerful radio telescopes to pick up
the signal which looks like a blue speck.


It is believed this image was taken on February 21 this year.



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[darkangel218]

1. Poor voyager.

I'm excited that it went so far out, but I feel a sense of loss. I wish we could get it back?




On edit, we will still be able to gather info from voyager until 2025

[snagglepuss]

2. "a sound recording was sent back to Earth from the spacecraft as it crossed a new frontier

...The rising tones NASA observed are made by the vibration of dense plasma or ionised gas and were captured by the probe's plasma wave instrument.


Speaking in a news conference, Don Gurnett, principle investigator for the Voyager plasma wave investigation, said: 'When you hear this recording, please recognise that this is an historic event. It's the first time that we've ever made a recording of sounds in interstellar space.'



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[darkangel218]

3. At first i thought we completely lost communications with it.

But we are to receive radio signals for at least another 11 years or so, until the power completely runs out.

Wish the cameras were still working, but they turned them off in 1990.

[defacto7]

4. Voyager 1 is now my god.

All glory laud and honor be to thee oh Voyager 1 of old.

And while with silent lifted beams you've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out your hand... and touched the face of eternity.

(based on the poem, High Flight)