NASA continues their journey to the end of our solar system by using Voyager 2

News24xx.com - NASA's spacecraft, Voyager 2, is stepping up to get out of the Solar System. Now, he is known to have detected an increase in cosmic rays that actually originated outside the star system where the Earth is located.

Since last August, Cosmic Ray Subsystem, the instrument on Voyager 2 has measured an increase of about 5% from the intensity of cosmic rays that exposed the spacecraft compared to the beginning of the same month. In addition, other instruments, Low-Energy Charged Particle, also detect the same thing.

Cosmic rays are fast-moving particles. It comes from outside the Solar System, as stated in NASA's official website. Some cosmic rays cannot enter because they are blocked by the heliosphere. Therefore, in this mission Voyager 2 is expected to be able to measure the increase of the intensity of cosmic rays that approach and pass through the heliosphere.

Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 has now reached 17.7 billion kilometers from Earth. For comparison, the number is more than 118 times the distance between the Sun and the Blue Planet.

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