Get Ready, Because Voyager I Is *This Close* to Leaving Our Solar System

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Last week, in the corners of the Internet devoted to outer space, things started to get a little, well, hot. Voyager 1, the man-made object farthest away from Earth, was encountering a sharp uptick in the number of a certain kind of energetic particles around it. Had the spacecraft become the first human creation to "officially" leave the solar system?

http://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...-close-to-leaving-br-our-solar-system/258456/