Daily Archives: 14 May 2012

NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) shows that the expected bow shock at the outer edge of solar system’s heliosphere is not actually there — and Voyager 1 and 2’s continuing missions demonstrate that the heliopause is shaped differently than expected 0

Citation D. J. McComas, D. Alexashov, M. Bzowski, H. Fahr, J. Heerikhuisen, V. Izmodenov, M. A. Lee, E. Möbius, N. Pogorelov, N. A. Schwadron, and G. P. Zank, The Heliosphere’s Interstellar Interaction: No Bow Shock, Science Express, DOI: 10.1126/science.1221054 (10 May 2012) What is IBEX? NASA launched the Interstellar Boundary Explorer on 19 October 2008 [...]