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Fluffy mystery at Solar System edge solved

By T.K. Randall
December 26, 2009 · Comment icon 5 comments

Image Credit: NASA
The two Voyager spacecraft have been careering out of the Solar System for 30 years having shed light on many of the mysteries of the outer planets, but now they are helping to solve a new mystery, that of an interstellar cloud.
Our solar system is passing through a cloud of interstellar material that shouldn't be there, astronomers say. And now the decades-old Voyager spacecraft have helped solved the mystery.


Source: Space.com | Comments (5)




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Comment icon #1 Posted by 8ball936 15 years ago
Is this by any chance like the could from the Fantastic 4 movie? I call the human torch's powers.
Comment icon #2 Posted by ROGER 15 years ago
I'm amazed that NASA can still talk and give instructions to both Voyagers! http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/profiles_dsn.html
Comment icon #3 Posted by behaviour??? 15 years ago
Interstellar space is fluffy. This is true. What's more, the veteran Voyager probes have just discovered that this fluff is more magnetized than previously believed, a factor that seems to allow its very existence.Of course, this fluff isn't made from the dust bunnies you find under your bed, the 'Local Fluff' (a nickname for the Local Interstellar Cloud) is a vast, wispy cloud of hot hydrogen and helium stretching 30 light years across. Our solar system is powering its way right through the Local Fluff and Voyagers 1 and 2 are currently traversing the boundary that separates the bubble of spa... [More]
Comment icon #4 Posted by thefinalfrontier 15 years ago
this is already posted B??? http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=171787
Comment icon #5 Posted by 747400 15 years ago
Funny, that, that space'd be full of fluff. I thought a vacuum usually sorted that out. it does under the sofa, anyway.


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