Satellite Beyond Our Solar System

The last voyager images were taken valentine s day 1990 when voyager 1 looked back from 3 7 billion miles to take a portrait of seven of the nine planets in our own solar system including the pale blue dot that is earth.

Satellite beyond our solar system.

Voyager 2 bottom is still exploring the. Probing the mysterious structures and origins of our universe. Voyager 2 launched on aug. Looking beyond to worlds around other stars.

20 1977 and voyager 1 launched about. Each of these craft was primarily designed to explore worlds in the outer solar system. Observing the sun and its effects on earth. Delving deep into our solar system.

Most of the stars in our galaxy are. With applications for mac and pc as well as apps for mobile devices there are many ways for you to follow along with our scientists and engineers. This means there are potentially thousands of planetary systems like our solar system within the galaxy. The knowledge and tools nasa has developed to study life on earth will be a great asset to the study of planets beyond our solar system.

Nasa s twin voyager probes voyager 1 and voyager 2 were launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets in our solar system. Get set for launch. Its environment still feels the solar influence. Our sun is one of at least 100 billion stars in the milky way a spiral galaxy about 100 000 light years across.

The stars are arranged in a pinwheel pattern with four major arms and we live in one of them about two thirds of the way outward from the center. Welcome to nasa s eyes a way for you to learn about your home planet our solar system the universe beyond and the spacecraft exploring them. And while sending astronauts beyond the solar system remains a distant dream humanity has already launched five robotic probes that are on paths to interstellar space. Everywhere imaginable nasa is out there.

Eyes on exoplanets will fly you to any planet you wish as long as it s far beyond our solar system. Within it there are at least 100 billion stars and on average each star has at least one planet orbiting it. After encountering uranus in 1986 and neptune in 1989 voyager 2 took a southward trajectory out of the solar system. Our living planet shapes the search for life beyond earth a super earth that scorches in extreme heat because it circles so close to its star.

This fully rendered 3d universe is scientifically accurate allowing you to zoom in for a close look at more than 1 000 exotic planets known to orbit distant stars.