Waspie_Dwarf Posted June 27, 2013 #1 Share Posted June 27, 2013 NASA's Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our 'Solar Bubble' PASADENA, Calif. -- Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar space.Research using Voyager 1 data and published in the journal Science today provides new detail on the last region the spacecraft will cross before it leaves the heliosphere, or the bubble around our sun, and enters interstellar space. Three papers describe how Voyager 1's entry into a region called the magnetic highway resulted in simultaneous observations of the highest rate so far of charged particles from outside heliosphere and the disappearance of charged particles from inside the heliosphere. Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted June 27, 2013 Author #2 Share Posted June 27, 2013 Voyager 1 Explores the "Magnetic Highway"This set of animations show NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft exploring a new region in our solar system called the "magnetic highway." In this region, the sun's magnetic field lines are connected to interstellar magnetic field lines, allowing particles from inside the heliosphere to zip away and particles from interstellar space to zoom in.Source: NASA Solar System - YouTube Channel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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