Voyager 1 has woken up. Out there, in interstellar space, tens of billions of miles from us, beyond the solar wind, lost in that great silent dark, both the Voyager satellites move ahead.
For some time, Voyager 1 had been transmitting gibberish. It’s hardly surprising. It was launched in 1977. Over 12 years ago it had already gone further than any other man-made object ever. But rocket scientists, being, you know,