A schematic showing the heliosphere and the interstellar medium

Scientists plan for the Interstellar Probe to reach 1,000 AU — 1 AU is the distance from the sun to Earth — into the interstellar medium. That’s about 10 times as far as the Voyager spacecraft have gone.

Credit: Johns Hopkins APL

• Probing deep space with Interstellar (26 April 2021)

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