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Welcome to another edition of Cool Step Ride Home. He's Reggie Rizu. I'm Marcus Paff. On today's episode

47 years in and billions of miles ride home. He's Reggie Rizu. I'm Marcus Paff. On today's episode, 47 years in and billions of miles from home, Voyager 1 is still troubleshooting to explore the great beyond.

Staying in space, the largest ever black hole jets have been discovered. What are they? Well, we'll tell you. And their size is almost

incomprehensible. We'll have the details. And on this day in history, the first fictitious band

to hit number one on the Billboard 100. That's all coming up on cool stuff.

Starting off this episode with Voyager 1, which has now spent 47 years in space,

and it just did something it hasn't done in a while in order to phone home.

The spacecraft fired up a set of thrusters that haven't been used in decades

in order to solve a communication issue by adjusting its position so its antenna will stay pointed towards Earth.

As we've discussed before, Voyager 1 lifted off into space on September 5th, 1977,

and nobody expected the probe still to be functioning today.

While its extended mission has had issues with parts aging in the frigid outer reaches of the solar

system, the engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or JPL, which is located in

Pasadena, California, have been able to be creative while still being careful to help the spacecraft

continue its journey and relay its findings back to Earth, because as you know, we can't send

replacement parts to it, so they have to be creative on their fixes. Voyager 1 is the furthest man-made

object from our planet at about 15 billion miles away and is operating beyond the heliosphere,

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