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Voyager 2 Shows Solar System Is "Dented"

Posted by kdawson on from the folded-spindled-mutilated dept.

Selikoff writes "NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has found that our solar system is not round but is 'dented' by the local interstellar magnetic field, space experts said on Monday. The data were gathered by the craft on its 30-year journey when it crossed into a region called the 'termination shock.' The data showed that the southern hemisphere of the solar system's heliosphere is being pushed in. Voyager 2 is the second spacecraft to enter this region of the solar system, behind Voyager 1, which reached the northern region of the heliosheath in December 2004."

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  1. Obviously by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously, the reason the solar system is dented is because God dropped it.

  2. Dented? by Centurix · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good job we have third party insurance on this sucker, I'd hate to see what we hit...

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  3. Re:I, for one... by Eternauta3k · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, voyager 1 and 2 stopped working after a few months, current "findings" are just invented by NASA.

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  4. Re:human defined? by somersault · · Score: 4, Funny

    McDonalds?

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  5. Re:Halp! by JustOK · · Score: 5, Funny

    Up is the shortest distance out of your head. In most cases, its best if "up" is not in the same direction as the dominant gravity source.

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  6. Re:Shape? by rucs_hack · · Score: 3, Funny

    Basically the suns solar winds push back interstellar matter. This can have a shape.

    So what your saying is, out there in interstellar space is a giant space kitteh saying 'I has a shape, let me apply it to you'.

    If it drops some giant space kitteh kibble while doing this, we are so screwed..

  7. Re:Halp! by andphi · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Enemy's Gate is Down.

  8. Re:I don't get it by hey! · · Score: 4, Funny

    My hat is off to you. You, sir, are a master of irony.

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  9. Re:Halp! by rb4havoc · · Score: 3, Funny

    So basically, Uranus is the Dennis Rodman of Planets?

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  10. The Truth by ScotlynHatt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Okay folks, I have some bad news for you. Human space exploration is deforming the universe and stuff. You heard it here first. I declare this anomaly "Universal Warming." What's higher than the Nobel prize?