{"id":122558,"date":"2021-05-13T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/hear-the-eerie-sounds-of-interstellar-space-captured-by-nasas-voyager"},"modified":"2021-05-13T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T03:23:00","slug":"hear-the-eerie-sounds-of-interstellar-space-captured-by-nasas-voyager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/hear-the-eerie-sounds-of-interstellar-space-captured-by-nasas-voyager","title":{"rendered":"Hear the Eerie Sounds of Interstellar Space Captured by NASA\u2019s Voyager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0dSlb3as9J0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>In the sparse collection of atoms that fills interstellar space, Voyager 1 has measured a long-lasting series of waves where it previously only detected sporadic bursts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Until recently, every spacecraft in history had made all of its measurements inside our heliosphere, the magnetic bubble inflated by our Sun. But on August 25, 2012, NASA \u2019s Voyager 1 changed that. As it <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/official-voyager-1-entered-interstellar-space\/\">crossed the heliosphere\u2019s boundary<\/a>, it became the first human-made object to enter \u2013 and measure \u2013 interstellar space. Now eight years into its interstellar journey, a close listen of Voyager 1\u2019s data is yielding new insights into what that frontier is like.<\/p>\n<p>If our heliosphere is a ship sailing interstellar waters, Voyager 1 is a life raft just dropped from the deck, determined to survey the currents. For now, any rough waters it feels are mostly from our heliosphere\u2019s wake. But farther out, it will sense the stirrings from sources deeper in the cosmos. Eventually, our heliosphere\u2019s presence will fade from its measurements completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the sparse collection of atoms that fills interstellar space, Voyager 1 has measured a long-lasting series of waves where it previously only detected sporadic bursts. Until recently, every spacecraft in history had made all of its measurements inside our heliosphere, the magnetic bubble inflated by our Sun. But on August 25, 2012, NASA \u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122558","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}