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Mike Wehner
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The vast majority of NASA's most interesting projects are ones that are fresh and new, like the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter. As technology advances, NASA can do more and more interesting and revolutionary things, but sometimes decades-old technology can still provide scientists with novel insights, especially when that technology was blasted into space with the sole purpose of getting as far away from Earth as it can.
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is currently over 14.1 billion miles from Earth. It's moving at a speed of approximately 38,000 miles per hour and not long ago passed through our solar system's boundary with interstellar space. Despite that incredible distance, the spacecraft is still able to relay data back to Earth, and new discoveries are still being made. In a new paper published in Nature Astronomy, researchers studying the spacecraft's data reveal that Voyager 1 can now hear something in interstellar space, and they think they know what it is.
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Voyager 1, now in interstellar space, hears an ominous hum originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 11 May 2021 at 23:56:54 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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