Where is Voyager?
The first animation shows the location of the two pertinent boundaries separating Voyager from leaving our solar system (the influence of the solar wind) and entering into interstellar space. The dramatic orange border at the end of the animation represents the bow shock, a theoretical area created as interstellar gas runs into the solar atmosphere. In the second sequence, the orange gas throughout is the interstellar medium. The sequence ends with a view of the Sun surrounded by the heliosphere. Voyager 1 is over four billion miles from Pluto and the farthest path of Halley’s Comet.
