Go Humanity: Voyager 1 is the First Human-Made Object to Leave Our Solar System

If you don't get this joke you aren't cool. 

Humanity has done it once again, ladies and gentlemen. We have left the solar system. Well, we haven't, humans are still stuck on Earth and the immediate surrounding areas, but something we made has officially left the solar system, and is now drifting around interstellar space.

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, left our solar system sometime around August 25th last year. It's hard to tell exactly when it happened, since there is no set "end" to the solar system (It's not a country after all, it's a ball of gravity that gets weaker and weaker the farther away you go.)

There have been several rumors over the last year that Voyager had left, or had not left the solar system, but this time it's all super official. NASA has announced it, and they're the ultimate space authority.

There's a lot more to be said about this, but I hardly have the authority to say it all, plus I need to go start this Star Wars marathon that I've been planning for like a whole hour now, so I'll send you to this great, not too-lengthy report on the matter by The Verge.