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Showing posts with label boundary of the solar system. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boundary of the solar system. Show all posts

Friday, September 14, 2012

The boundary of the solar system resists the Voyager 1


A study by Johns Hopkins University of Maryland (USA) completed that the probe Voyager 1, launched on September 5, 1977, is as close to the heliopause (the boundary where the solar wind disappears and begins the interstellar medium ) as scientists believed.

Voyager 1 is now in the heliosheath, the region anterior to the heliopause, where the solar wind slows and begins to show the effects of the interstellar medium.