Will humans never be able to fly out of the solar system? Voyager blocked by 'wall of fire' with 50,000°C temperature
Humans have never been able to fly out of the solar system
Can humans fly out of the solar system? This is a question that is of great concern to everyone. It has been more than 40 years since Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 flew off the Earth, so long that many people thought Voyager had flown out of the solar system, but the reality is just the opposite.
In recent years, scientists have discovered that Voyager has encountered a major obstacle when flying outside the solar system: the 'fire wall'. The firewall is an invisible wall with extremely high temperatures, approaching 50,000 degrees Celsius. Some scientists also predict that once this wall is broken through, Voyager will be able to break out of the solar system and travel to other planets.
Objects in our solar system
It is very difficult for Voyager to leave the solar system because it is not determined by a wall. For in addition to this extremely hot wall, there is the Oort Nebula at the edge of our solar system. The Oort Nebula is the boundary of our solar system. The only way to get there is to go through the Oort Nebula.
But can we still see that scene?
The location of the Oort Nebula
Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have now reached the top of the Sun's heliosphere, which is the limit of the distance that solar particles can reach.
The Sun is known to be a star that radiates heat continuously through nuclear fusion. During the nuclear fusion reaction, large amounts of energetic particles are radiated to the outside world, and these energetic particles will fly away like the sun. Because of the sun's gravity, constantly causes the solar particles to slow down, preventing them from flying any further.
So the solar particles can only reach 120 astronomical units, or fly to a distance of 75 million kilometres, at which distance a wall of energetic particles will form. My wall is protective; it is a dkilometersctive layer of the Sun that stops cosmic rays from outside the solar system from entering it and provides a natural protective barrier for the planets in the solar system.
For the Sun, this may be beneficial but for humans, it makes flying out of the solar system incredibly difficult. Voyager 1 also faces this wall of fire. According to calculations, the temperature of this wall of fire is close to 50,000°C, which is already well above the temperature of the Earth's core.
According to scientists' speculations, Voyager 2 crossed this fire wall in 2018 and officially entered interstellar space. For the rest of its journey, Voyager 2 will continue to fly forward to another unknown location.
Because of the data coming back from Voyager, we continue to gain new insights into the boundaries of our solar system, especially the Oort Nebula outside the Sun, a discovery in our study of outer space in our solar system.
I think we're all familiar with the Oort Nebula when it comes to it. So how did people discover the Oort Nebula?
Actually, people also assumed the Oort Nebula because scientists found that comets appeared out of thin air and the source had not been found. But according to the law of conservation of mass, there is no matter Peoplethat appears out of thin air, so it is understood that it must have come from somewhere or existed in a region, which we have not yet discovered, where the comet might have originated.
The astronomer Oort has therefore put forward a hypothesis. He believes that the outermost layer of the solar system is still covered with a layer of nebulae left over from the formation of the Sun. It is always covered by the gravitational pull of the Sun on the outer edge of the Sun. Most scientists also believe in the existence of this nebula, which is why they call it the Oort Nebula.
Scientists have been working to explore the Oort Nebula, but with current equipment it is difficult to tell what it really looks like because we are disturbed by the Sun's light during our observations and cannot tell what shape it is. The only way to get real answers is for Voyager 1 or Voyager 2 to take pictures, es in the field, but the problem the batteries Voyager itself carries seem to have difficulty supporting a trip to the Oort Nebula.
According to Voyager 2's energy calculations, it won't send back any more information after about 2020. Until 2025, the power will be completely exhausted. Voyagercarry no longer is in contact with Earth and we will not be able to get any information about Voyager. He will have to fly alone.
This also leads to the fact that even if Voyager flies out of the solar system, mankind will not know about it.
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Wondering why no one's reading or commenting on your article? It's because you have the absolute worst editor and grammar factors in existence. Pathetic really. Go back to school. And by the way, this pathetic analysis of the Oort Nebulae is completely wrong. Did you look up Wikipedia and really attempt to write something you couldn't even copy and plagiarize correctly? Unreal. If your generation is the future, no wonder it's being called Gen Z.