The Voyager 1 entered interstellar space

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is on the edge of our solar system according to a NASA statement, becoming the first man-made object to venture into interstellar space.

Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 and, after 36 years traveling through space with the aim of studying other planets outside the Solar System, is 19 billion miles from Earth, at a transitional space immediately outside Solar bubble, which still show some effects of the sun.

"Now that we have new key information we believe this is a historic leap in interstellar space," said Ed Stone, a Voyager project scientist at the Institute of Technology based in Pasadena California.

Already in 2004 had detected an increase in the pressure of interstellar space in the heliosphere, the bubble of ionized particles surrounding the sun and beyond the outer planets of the solar wind. From there, scientists intensified the search for evidence of the arrival of the ship to the area interstellar, knowing that the interpretation of these data could take months or years.