Where Does the Solar System End? - Science Scrapbook 13.11.12

from Naked Science Scrapbook · host Dr Chris Smith, The Naked Scientists

Launched in 1977 to study the Solar system's gas giant planets, Voyager 1 is still operating. But now it's so far away that the Solar wind has weakened and a deluge of cosmic particles from intergalactic space is assailing it. Now interstellar space awaits. But where does the Solar system end and this new frontier begin?

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