Something i learned today that i thought was awesome and cool when you think about it! As those who are closest to me know, i LOVE ASTRONOMY...so any little thing that happens out there, fascinates me. Well back in 1972 or 77...OR SOMETIME IN THE early to mid 70s...NASA launched Voyager 1, and the satellite's mission was supposed to take pictures of Jupiter and Saturn and relay the information back to us...well in the early to mid 80s, it completed it's mission and then just drifted off...there was no return trip for it, so off it goes. Today (6/23/2012)...or Saturday for those of you reading this a little later on NASA got word from the satellite that it had discovered the "new region"...which means, Voyager 1 has left the Solar System and is now off into interstellar space. Right now it's about...i think the newspaper said 38 Billion Miles from the sun...it's LOOOOOONG past the planets and it's about to drift off into the interstellar, where no man made craft has ever gone before...i think...that is ABSOLUTELY NERDILY AWESOME~! It's still transmitting new information but...it's TAKING FOOOOOOOOOOOOOREVER for it to get to us from where it is. Most likely the information we have is at least a year old, because of the time it takes for it to transmit back to us. I'm SUPER SHOCKED that it has traveled for 30+ years out there without getting WHACKED by something and getting destroyed...who knows...it might discover something before it goes too far away and the signal dies...forever.

I think it's sooooo cool...it's hard to put into words sometimes...we're still receiving signals from a satellite we launched over 30 years ago...and it's past the planets fully and exited the system...it's about 10 billion miles PAST PLUTO...that's damn far!

Okay I'm done...i hope you guys enjoyed that...i'm a nerd for space stuff...what can i say >8B

I come home from my trip Tomorrow~! (6/24/2012) Cant wait to see all mah friends :3

Love,
~Skiver Starlight~