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Yesterday Was Big Day For “Vega”

Voyager 1, or ‘Vega” from the days of Star Trek The Motion Picture, made interstellar history yesterday. The little spacecraft just passed the 100 astronomical unit (AU) mark. This means that Voyager is now 100 times farther away from the sun than the sun is from the earth, or about “9.3 billion miles out there”.

Voyager 2 is chugging along about six years behind.

Here are all the astronimicals.


Posted by Edd on August 18, 2006 2:06 PM |

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