The 1800-pound Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched aboard a Titan ... The image was assembled from three black and white images taken through color filters. This approximate natural-color image ...

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Some 2,500 stars are located in the greater Rosette Nebula, which is some 5,200 light-years away in our Milky Way galaxy.

Saying farewell is hard, and in the case of the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft doubly so, seeing as how they have been with us for more than 47 years. From the highs of the 1970s and 1980s during their ...

Designed to take photos of the outer planets ... Five are still operational on Voyager 2, four on Voyager 1. As the plutonium-238 that powers the spacecraft decays, mission engineers must ...

By 2012, Voyager 1 became the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space ... gold plated copper discs containing sounds and ...

Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft is currently exploring where nothing from Earth has ever flown before. Launched in 1977, it's now on a mission to go as far away from the solar system as possible ...

This was the first software update made to a spacecraft in interstellar space. Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, face declining power levels due to the decay of their plutonium-238 power supplies ...

On Voyager's Golden Record, he acted as both technical director and director of images, leading the technical ... image of Earth taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and the "Day the Earth Smiled ...