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There’s just so many exciting things going on today that I’ll have to post again! It was confirmed today in the Sept. 23rd issue of Science that Voyager 1 crossed the termination shock on Dec. 16th, 2004. Read the article for more on what all that means but, summed up: this baby is about to leave our solar system! Voyager 1 has been operating for 28 years and looks like it’ll go for another 15 at least. There’s so much about our universe that we don’t understand and it’s awesome to have a spacecraft that has collected so much data that we can even have a glimpse about what’s out there in the great unknown.