Voyager 2 Detects Peculiar Solar System Edge

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday May 24, 2006 @05:17AM from the magnet-on-a-really-long-string dept.

ClickOnThis writes "CNN reports that Voyager 2 has detected evidence of the magnetic edge of the solar system (aka the heliopause) at 76 AU (1 AU = 93 million miles), much closer to the Sun than the location of 85 AU found by Voyager 1. From the article: 'This implies that the heliosphere, a spherical bubble of charged low-energy particles created by our Sun's solar wind, is irregularly shaped, bulging in the northern hemisphere and pressed inward in the south. [...] The researchers think that the heliosphere's asymmetry might be due to a weak interstellar magnetic field pressing inward on the southern hemisphere.'"

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Turkey.. by crossmr · 2006-05-24 05:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Its too early for Thanksgiving... but then I suppose we do have some information lag, maybe its still getting over Easter ham?
Fox is already making a miniseries by us7892 · 2006-05-24 06:38 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This will be picked up by Fox News, and CBS, and the other networks, and soon we'll hear stories of how the Galaxy is imploding on Earth, and we're all going to die as the Earth and Sun are crashed together.

By next month, "Galaxy Disaster - The Apocolypse" will be a Fox miniseries, and C-list actors will save the world, based on an excentric scientist's last hour idea to save the world.