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Goodbye Voyager! The spacecraft is all set to leave our solar system

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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is about to leave the sun's territory to enter the inter-stellar space. NASA's twin spacecrafts Voyager 1 and Cassini reached edge of the solar system sooner than expected which means the boundary of solar system is smaller than what scientists had earlier speculated. Voyager 1's exit is expected to give astrophysicists new data accounts of life outside the solar system.
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Solar Activity Drop: Will It Lead to Little Ice Age II?

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Unusual solar storm could disrupt Earth communications

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SUNY official in Bruno case steps down

Amid charges from the Public Integrity Commission he gave a no-show job to former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, a top State University of New York official from his post as Senior Vice Chancellor and as head of the SUNY Research Foundation.

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