Voyager 2013 〈Legit · 2026〉

In 2013, Voyager 2 was still inside the heliosphere (~100 AU), but closing in. It would eventually cross into interstellar space in 2018.

Anyone else remember following the 2013 announcement in real time? voyager 2013

The announcement wasn’t sudden. Back in 2012, scientists saw a “magnetic highway” of charged particles, but the official “we are out ” confirmation came in September 2013 after careful analysis. There was even healthy scientific debate: some argued Voyager hadn’t truly left until it measured a change in magnetic field direction (which didn’t happen as expected). But the plasma density data won the case — Voyager 1 was in a new, unexplored region. In 2013, Voyager 2 was still inside the