Voyager Makes an Interstellar Discovery

Science@NASA ^ | 12.23.2009 | Dr. Tony Phillips

[sig226]

Nah, physicists don’t matter. Now if climate scientists had said that it wasn’t there . . .

[americanophile]

Isn’t this where Lando Calrissian lives?

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

You can say the Solar System ends at the Heliopause.Initial data from Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), launched in October 2008, revealed a previously unpredicted "very narrow ribbon that is two to three times brighter than anything else in the sky." Initial interpretations suggest that "the interstellar environment has far more influence on structuring the heliosphere than anyone previously believed. You can also say that the Solar System ends at the Oort Cloud.The Oort Cloud is a hypothesized spherical cloud of comets which may lie roughly 50,000 AU, or nearly a light-year, from the Sun.This places the cloud at nearly a quarter of the distance to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

No.

....A long time ago, in a Galaxy far, far, away....

[shibumi]

There is a secret stone, hidden in a deep well,

worthless and rejected, concealed in dung or filth.

It is a thing which is found everywhere,

which is a stone and no stone,

contemptible and precious,

hidden, concealed, and yet known to everyone.

(Certain "heavenly bodies" not withstanding.)

[stevie_d_64]

Too bad, she passed away back in 1998...

[grey_whiskers]

Yikes! I didn't know that.

Apologies for lack of decorum.

Cheers!

[stevie_d_64]

Ehhhh, don’t worry, You didn’t know, no apologies necessary...