{"id":116704,"date":"2020-12-05T10:24:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T18:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/spacecraft-that-flew-outside-the-solar-system-find-unique-physics"},"modified":"2020-12-05T10:24:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T18:24:55","slug":"spacecraft-that-flew-outside-the-solar-system-find-unique-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/spacecraft-that-flew-outside-the-solar-system-find-unique-physics","title":{"rendered":"Spacecraft that flew outside the solar system find \u2018unique physics\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacecraft-that-flew-outside-the-solar-system-find-unique-physics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Voyager probes have detected an entirely new kind of electron burst outside the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time this \u201cunique physics\u201d have been detected by a spacecraft, and could allow for new breakthroughs in our understanding of the \u201cinterstellar medium\u201d, or the space between the stars.<\/p>\n<p>The two Voyager spacecraft were launched by NASA more than 40 years ago, with the aim of flying to the far reaches of our solar system. They have now gone even further than that, reaching interstellar space, and exploring the gaps between the stars, giving us the first glimpses of what it might be like in that mysterious zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Voyager probes have detected an entirely new kind of electron burst outside the solar system. It is the first time this \u201cunique physics\u201d have been detected by a spacecraft, and could allow for new breakthroughs in our understanding of the \u201cinterstellar medium\u201d, or the space between the stars. The two Voyager spacecraft were launched [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116704","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=116704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}