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A shock for Voyager 2

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The Voyager 2 spacecraft has now followed Voyager 1 into the region beyond the end of the supersonic solar wind, where the influence of interstellar space is growing — so opening a new age of exploration.

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  1. J. R. Jokipii is in the Department of Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA. jokipii@lpl.arizona.edu,

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