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…
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“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…