Voyager 2 should hit heliopause this year
The second of the two Voyager spacecraft should cross the termination shock wave, where the solar wind drops below the deep-space analogy for supersonic speed, sometime in the coming year. At that point it will have passed out of the "bubble" of particles flowing from the sun and into a turbulent...
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