[PeaceBeWithYou]

Right out of Roddenberry's Star Trek.

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Voyager flies through the outer bounds
of the heliosphere en route to interstellar
space. A strong magnetic field reported by
Opher et al in the Dec. 24, 2009, issue of
Nature is delineated in yellow.

An artist's concept of the Local Interstellar Cloud,
also known as the "Local Fluff."

The anatomy of the heliosphere. Since
this illustration was made, Voyager 2
has joined Voyager 1 inside the heliosheath,
a thick outer layer where the solar wind is
slowed by the pressure of interstellar gas.

[allmost]

Archaic tech. Let’s try again :)

[The Drowning Witch]

My God....We’re motes of sand a-drift in a river the size of the Mississippi.

[DesertSapper]

"an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist"

Then it must not be there because physicists know everything!

[Frantzie]

VeeGer is still sending back data? Didn’t another one leave the solar system?

[GeronL]

cool!!

Solar Systems are like bubbles in the fluff!

[Skooz]

bfl

[SaxxonWoods]

“There could be interesting times ahead!” says Opher.

There should be elaboration upon such a statement. This isn’t the Perils of Pauline. Or is it?

[dog breath]

Massive amounts of hot air and fluff, at first I thought this was another article about Obama.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for posting. This really hits home for me as my Dad lead the program to develop and manufacture the powerplants that power Voyager 1 and 2. I really enjoy reading about these amazing spacecraft.

[buccaneer81]

Space ping!

[jonrick46]

Does this mean that we have to traverse a 4000 degree “fluff” zone on our way out of the solar system? That appears like this is an impenetrable zone that keeps man trapped inside the solar system.

[Centurion2000]

Best $$ ever spent on a space probe ... 30+ years and STILL working ... paid in full.

[Bean Counter]

Just amazing! There are a lot of guys who are retiring now, who cut their professional teeth on the Voyager program, and the spacecraft are still out there doing meaningful science./

Wow. Just wow!!

[opbuzz]

6000c = 10832f

Cool. How long will Voyager last in that?

[jdege]

I ran across a book, a few years back, called “The Big Bang Never Happened.” It’s premise was that cosmologists assumptions that only gravity mattered on a cosmic scale, because positive and negative electromagnetic forces canceled each other out, was unfounded. And that the observations were consistent with a universe filled with massive electromagnetic flux.

Interesting that we should have found some.

Of course, the consequence of having electromagnetism matter is that the past and the future of the universe is no longer predictable. If gravity is everything, we can know the end state. If it is not, we cannot.

http://bigbangneverhappened.org/

[dragnet2]

NASA’s two Voyager probes have been racing out of the solar system for more than 30 years.

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The spacecraft are moving at approximately 12 miles per second......And they still haven’t left the solar system...lol..

[PeaceBeWithYou]

A Breeze from the Thirteenth House - Interesting, Related.

[Captain Beyond]

bump

[38special]

Hey Hey, You You get off of my cloud...

[grey_whiskers]

Like, *PING*, dudes.