{"id":114697,"date":"2020-10-19T07:25:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T14:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/voyager-spacecraft-detect-an-increase-in-the-density-of-space-outside-the-solar-system"},"modified":"2020-10-19T07:25:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T14:25:51","slug":"voyager-spacecraft-detect-an-increase-in-the-density-of-space-outside-the-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/voyager-spacecraft-detect-an-increase-in-the-density-of-space-outside-the-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"Voyager Spacecraft Detect an Increase in The Density of Space Outside The Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/voyager-spacecraft-detect-an-increase-in-the-density-of-space-outside-the-solar-system2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In November 2018, after an epic, 41-year voyage, Voyager 2 finally crossed the boundary that marked the limit of the Sun\u2019s influence and entered interstellar space. But the little probe\u2019s mission isn\u2019t done yet \u2014 it\u2019s now sending home information about the space beyond the Solar System.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s revealing something surprising. As Voyager 2 moves farther and farther from the Sun, the<em> density<\/em> of space is increasing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time this density increase has been detected. Voyager 1, which entered interstellar space in 2012, detected a similar density gradient at a separate location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2018, after an epic, 41-year voyage, Voyager 2 finally crossed the boundary that marked the limit of the Sun\u2019s influence and entered interstellar space. But the little probe\u2019s mission isn\u2019t done yet \u2014 it\u2019s now sending home information about the space beyond the Solar System. And it\u2019s revealing something surprising. As Voyager 2 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}