A newly published paper argues that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has already entered interstellar space. The model described in the paper is new and different from other models used so far to explain the data the spacecraft has been sending back from more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) away from our sun.
NASA's Voyager project scientist, Ed Stone of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, explains:
"Details of a new model have just been published that lead the scientists who created the model to argue that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft data can be consistent with entering interstellar space in 2012..."
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Controversy regarding NASA Voyager on when it entered interstellar space
