Q&A WITH A GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ASTRONOMER
Shaoni Bhattacharya interviews Professor James Cordes
What is Voyager 1 doing now?
It’s over 40 years since the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft were launched in the late 1970s. They have now left the sphere of the Sun’s influence – the heliosphere – and they are both sampling the conditions in the interstellar medium. This connects up with what I do, using ground-based radio telescopes to also study the
