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An exact date for Voyager’s departure from the heliosphere?

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New data from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, which has been hurtling away from the sun since it was launched in 1977, indicates that the spacecraft has indeed left the warm comfort of the heliosphere -- the bubble of charged particles surrounding the solar system -- and entered into a region of deep, dark space, known as interstellar space.

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