News tagged with interstellar medium
First images of solar system's invisible frontier
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 02, 2008 |
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NASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley, scientists to map for the first time the energized ...
Cassini Data Help Redraw Shape of Solar System (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Images from the Ion and Neutral Camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggest that the heliosphere, the region of the sun's influence, may not have the comet-like shape predicted by existing ...
Astronomer's new guide to the galaxy: Largest map of cold dust revealed
Jul 01, 2009 |
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This new guide for astronomers, known as the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL) shows the Milky Way in submillimetre-wavelength light (between infrared light and radio waves). Images ...
IBEX collecting science data, building first all-sky map of the edge of the solar system
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 14, 2009 |
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Following two months of commissioning, during which the spacecraft and sensors were tuned for optimum mission performance, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft began gathering data to build the first maps ...
MIT instrument studies edge of sun's bubble
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 08, 2008 |
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The Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have traveled beyond the edges of the bubble in space where the sun's constant outward wind of particles and radiation slams into the interstellar medium that pervades our galaxy. ...
