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They say that so much, that I will consider news when they say Voyager 1 is in another star (or in another... whatever it finds along the way!)

THEN I will consider it news...

Even because some scientists consider even the oort cloud (that is hell far) still part of solar system anyway.

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It's likely you would be dead before then. Voyager 1 after 36 years is about 127 AU away. The oort cloud is believed to be at least 50,000 AU away [0]. So you'll have to wait about another 14,000 years.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud

And Voyager 1 isn't expected to pass the star AC+79 3888 (in the 'Little Dipper') until 40,272 AD.

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/faq.html

"Pass" being a pretty generous term, coming within 1.7 light-years, or over 500 times farther than its lifetime distance from Earth/Sol to today. It's like driving from New York to San Francisco and calling some spot in Kansas "passing the moon".

All of the Solar System outbound spacecraft aren't expected to pass within, say, the planetary disc range of any known stars at any calculable future time. Space is really freakin empty.

You mean the hypothetical oort cloud? Because we don't know where that is either. This is news because they have confirmed their hypothesis again. This is how science works. It's not just one experiment and then it's time go home.

Besides, have you ever seen any data from interstellar plasma before? Well they have, now.

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