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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 [...]

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14 May 2012 – 14:17
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By BrainiYak

Voyagers I and II, now transmitting from the solar system’s heliosheath, are still outward bound 1

Voyager I and II’s 33-year plus (and still counting) journey — a triumph of engineering and scientific thinking Getting in obviously right in science and engineering is not easy, when what’s out there is unknown.  The scientists and engineers who worked on NASA’s Voyager I and II exploratory space probes did an admirable job of [...]

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1 May 2011 – 18:48
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By BrainiYak