HTTP:: The Solar System Ends in a Narrow Ribbon
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Data from satellites charged with producing a map of our solar system and its limits have revealed that our “bubble†ends with a very narrow ribbon of densely packed neutral atoms, rather than with an area of evenly distributed ones. The fringes of the solar system can only be imagined, astronomers say, if we take into account these neutral atoms, which are not influenced by the Sun. The data used for this conclusion came from the American space agency's IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer) satellite, Wired reports. “Our maps show structure and energy spectra that are completely different from what any model has predicted,†Herbert Funsten explains. He is a scientist at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), in New Mexico, and also the co-author of a new paper detailing the finds. Six researches on the subject were published online in the October 15 issue of the top journal Science, and all of them combined to send astrophysici!
sts back to the drawing board. The new find could also reshape our understanding of how the heliosphere, the protective layer our Sun generates, and within which all objects in the solar system reside, interacts with the space beyond it. This is very important, as the strength of this layer is a determinant factor in underst...
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