Voyager 1 reached the heliopause in 2012, followed by Voyager 2 six years later, confirming the heliosphere isn’t actually a perfect sphere.
  • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Technically even the Voyager probes are orbiting something. It isn’t a planet, and not even the sun anymore. It is orbiting Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

    But yeah, probe is the more accurate term.