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Voyager 1 has a receiver on board that can record such bursts and report
them to Earth.

That's not all: the blast wave will push the edge of the heliosphere
outward as much as 600 million km, Stone believes, and then there will
be a rebound. For months the outer layer of the sun's magnetic bubble
might slowly sweep back and forth over Voyager 1.

For Stone and his colleagues, who've have been waiting decades for
Voyager 1 to reach the outer limits of the solar system, this is an
exciting time. Solar shock waves. Radio bursts. The heliosphere itself
bulging and rebounding.

It's not so uneventful out there, after all.
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