May 12, 2021

A NASA diagram of the PWS instrument's location and the antenna in common with the PRA instrument

An article published in the journal “Nature Astronomy” reports a study on the faint interstellar plasma waves detected by NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe. A team of researchers led by Stella Koch Ocker of Cornell University used a series of detections conducted by Voyager 1 while traveling a total distance that is about ten times the average distance of the Earth from the Sun which gives an idea of ​​the characteristics of the interstellar plasma when it’s not altered by events related to solar activity.