Voyager Spacecraft 33 years later

[Kreskin]

BBC News - Voyager near Solar System's edge

It's amazing that the spacecraft still works, and is traveling at 17 KLM's per second.

 

[petros]

Voyagers latest discovery was that the sun has a tail similar to a comet but on the galactic scale. I thought that was interesting. I wonder how often the ecliptic passes through the sun's "tail" and what sort of mayhem does that bring to the planets?

 

[earth_as_one]

The planets are too close to the sun to pass anywhere near the heliosheath.

 

[petros]

The suns orbit of the galactic core is wave like and rises and falls like a roller coaster The ecliptic does pass through from time to time. Those must be fun times.