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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Re:I knew it by mentaldingo · 2006-05-24 05:25 · Score: -1, Troll

I, for one, welcome our new bubble overlords!
Wait for it... by sgant · 2006-05-24 05:37 · Score: -1, Troll

Wait a few days....Al Gore will have a new PowerPoint slide that shows how this is all caused by global (now solar system) warming.

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1. Re:Wait for it... by FiosFiend · 2006-05-24 07:17 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  Followed by a slide that shows how he invented solar wind.