Boundary Between Our Solar System and Interstellar Space Mapped for the First Time
Using data from NASA’s IBEX satellite, scientists created the first-ever 3D map of the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space. For the first…
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Hear the Eerie Sounds of Interstellar Space Captured by NASA’s Voyager
As NASA’s Voyager 1 Surveys Interstellar Space, Its Density Measurements Are Making Waves In the sparse collection of atoms that fills interstellar space, Voyager 1…
SHIELDS Up! NASA Rocket Launched to Survey Our Solar System’s Windshield
Eleven billion miles away – more than four times the distance from us to Pluto – lies the boundary of our solar system’s magnetic bubble,…
NASA Approves Two Heliophysics Missions to Explore Sun, Earth’s Aurora
NASA has approved two heliophysics missions to explore the Sun and the system that drives space weather near Earth. Together, NASA’s contribution to the Extreme…
“Deflated Croissant” – Uncovering the True Shape of Our Solar System
Scientists have developed a new prediction of the shape of the bubble surrounding our solar system using a model developed with data from NASA missions….
NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer Charts 11 Years of Change to Heliosphere
Far, far beyond the orbits of the planets lie the hazy contours of the magnetic bubble in space that we call home. This is the…
Solar Ring Mission Proposal: A New Concept of Space Exploration
With the development of science and technology, human’s activity was and is expanding from land, sea and sky to the space and other planets. In…
Astrophysicists Reveal a New Model of Our Solar System’s Protective Bubble, the Heliosphere
Boston University astrophysicist and collaborators reveal a new model of our heliosphere that’s shaped somewhere between a croissant and a beach ball. The heliosphere is…
IBEX Reveals How Solar Wind Changes Our Heliosphere
What happens when the solar wind suddenly starts to blow significantly harder? According to two recent studies, the boundaries of our entire solar system balloon…