CERN webcast: "The Odyssey of Voyager" by Prof. Edward C. Stone, as part of the AMS days at CERN

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Launched in 1977 to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, the two Voyager spacecraft continued their journeys beyond the planets as they searched for the edge of heliosphere, the giant bubble of wind surrounding the sun. Beyond the bubble lies interstellar space, the space between the stars filled with matter from the explosions of other stars and by the magnetic field of the Milky Way. After a thirty-five year journey taking it eighteen billion kilometers from the Earth, Voyager 1 became the first human-made object to enter interstellar space. Voyager’s odyssey continues as it explores the space between the stars.

Edward C. Stone is the David Morrisroe Professor of Physics and Vice Provost for Special Projects at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He is also the Executive Director of the TMT International Observatory LLC and a former Director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Read more about his role and background via https://indico.cern.ch/event/387001/

This public talk is part of a 3-day colloquium "AMS days at CERN". The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) Experiment on the International Space Station has to date recorded over 60 billion cosmic ray events (e-, e+, p, antiproton, He, Li, B/C ...) up to TeV energies. AMS is a precision particle physics detector, assembled and extensively calibrated at CERN before its launch in 2011.

For more about the colloquium, see: http://indico.cern.ch/event/381134/ or watch the webcast via https://webcast.web.cern.ch/webcast/play.php?event=381134