Probe voyages beyond solar system

For the first time, a manmade object has left the solar system.

US scientists last night confirmed that Nasa’s Voyager 1 probe had become the first manmade object to move beyond the bubble of hot gas from our sun and begin moving in the space between the stars.

The spacecraft was launched in 1977 on a mission to explore the outer planets of our solar system and to possibly journey into the unknown depths of outer space.