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A scientist who's been working on NASA's Voyager mission for more than half a century has helped shepherd the iconic spacecraft all the way to interstellar space — and now, he says that the probes are straight-up catching strays.
Beyond not knowing definitively if cosmic rays are the culprit for the woes experienced by the Voyagers and NASA'snotes, is that they're caused by the explosion of stars, known as supernovae, which supercharge particles and shoot them out in all directions. So violent is the shock from a supernova that particles are stripped of their shells, whipping through space as just nuclei — per the theory, at least.
Whatever is going on with them, however, Cummings says one thing is for sure: "We are dodging bullets out there."
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