All Articles Tagged As: heliosphere

Data add to understanding of Sun-Galaxy interaction (7/22/2008)

Analysis of data from spacecraft Voyager 2 shows that the solar wind, when collides with interstellar medium to enter the Solar System's final frontier, the heliosheath, turns out to be faster and cooler than scientists had previously expected ...> Full Article

Voyager's New Discoveries (7/19/2008)

According to recent data transmitted from the Voyager 2 spacecraft, the solar system is not round, but has an asymmetric, squashed shape. ...> Full Article

First images of solar system's invisible frontier (7/5/2008)

Twin STEREO spacecraft take first images of distant solar system with particles, not light ...> Full Article

Scientists Study Voyager 2's Plunge Through the Heliosphere (12/15/2007)

Scientists have discovered that our sun's 'atmosphere' is asymmetric, thanks to two champion spacecraft. ...> Full Article

Voyager 2 Spacecraft Set to Reach Space Milestone (11/30/2007)

Using a computer model simulation, Haruichi Washimi, a physicist at UC Riverside, has predicted when the interplanetary spacecraft Voyager 2 will cross the "termination shock," the spherical shell around the solar system that marks where the solar wind slows down to subsonic speed. ...> Full Article

In Search Of Interstellar Dragon Fire (8/23/2007)

Ancient explorers set sail expecting to encounter dragons on the world's unknown oceans. NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft are searching for dragons of a different sort as they enter the boundary of our solar system â€" cosmic "dragons" that breathe a strange fire of high-speed atomic fragments called cosmic rays. ...> Full Article