As ISRO is training the astronauts for its Gaganyan space mission, the Voyager 1, the first craft in interstellar space, may have gone dark. When the Voyager 1 was launched in 1977, scientists hoped it could do what it was built to do and take up close images of Jupiter and Saturn. It did that and much more. Voyager 1 discovered active volcanoes, moons, and planetary rings. It proved along the way that Earth and all of humanity could be squished into a single pixel in a photograph, a “pale blue dot,” as astronomer Carl Sagan called it. It stretched … Continue reading Voyager 1’s Silence Since November 2023: Navigating the Unknown in Interstellar Space