Space & Astronomy
NASA probe discovers 'alien' matter
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T.K. RandallFebruary 2, 2012 ·
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Image Credit: NASA
The Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft has detected matter from outside our solar system.
It's the first time that matter from elsewhere in the galaxy has been picked up. "This alien interstellar material is really the stuff that stars and planets and people are made of — it's really important to be measuring it," said IBEX principal investigator David McComas.
This so-called interstellar material was spotted by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), a spacecraft that is studying the edge of the solar system from its orbit about 200,000 miles (322,000 kilometers) above Earth.
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