Voyager spacecraft find entirely new 'unique physics' outside the solar system - The Independent

The latest discovery from the spacecraft – using data taken from both Voyager 1 and 2 – saw them pick up bursts of electrons like none ever detected before.

Then the shock waves themselves are detected by the spacecraft, sometimes as much as a month later.

The Voyager spacecraft are now so far away what even at that speed they take a year to be detected.

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