Professor of physics at the University of Iowa, Donald A. Gurnett, confirmed Thursday that Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has left the solar system.
At present, Voyager 1 is 11.7 billion miles from Earth and traveling at 38,000 miles per hour which makes it one of the fastest spacecraft ever flown.
But the point of contention has been has it or will it soon break through the heliosphere which is made up of particles from the sun that surround the whole solar system. However Gurnett's paper in the journal Science states categorically that the event happened Aug. 25, 2012.
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