Voyager 2 • Trajectory through the Solar System 8.2.2022 • This visualization tracks the trajectory of the Voyager 2 spacecraft through the solar system. Launched on August 20, 1977, it was one of two spacecraft sent to visit the giant planets of the outer solar system. Like Voyager 1, Voyager 2 flew by Jupiter and Saturn, but the Voyager 2 mission was extended to fly by Uranus and Neptune before being directed out of the solar system. To fit the 40 year history of the mission into a short visua

NASA's Voyager 2 launched on August 20, 1977. 40 years later, it's made it 11 billion miles from Earth. Here's how to understand that journey on a human scale: | Vox

Voyager 2 may have just changed everything we thought we knew about space. 🚀🧠 After 45 years in deep space, this legendary spacecraft has sent back data so unexpected, it caught the attention of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Strange signals. Anomalous particle behavior. Magnetic field shifts beyond the heliosphere. Scientists aren’t calling it alien but they are calling it impossible. Whatever Voyager 2 has found out there, it's a reminder that the universe still holds secrets and sometimes

After nearly 50 years in deep space, Voyager 2 has sent back its final images and they are beyond extraordinary. These last transmissions reveal mysterious light patterns, strange solar wind structures, and cosmic interactions beyond the edge of our solar system where the Sun's influence fades and true interstellar space begins. Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 has traveled billions of kilometers, outliving its original mission by decades. Its final data offers a hauntingly beautiful look at the unkn