Voyager- A Big Surprise from the Edge of the Solar System

[n2doc]

June 9, 2011: NASA's Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, 9 billion miles from Earth, they are beaming back news from the most distant, unexplored reaches of the solar system.

Mission scientists say the probes have just sent back some very big news indeed.

It's bubbly out there.

"The Voyager probes appear to have entered a strange realm of frothy magnetic bubbles," says astronomer Merav Opher of Boston University. "This is very surprising."

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http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09jun_bigsurprise/

[HopeHoops]

1. Does Santorum know about this? Didn't he file for copyright on the word "frothy"?

[plumbob]

2. Can't be! Jesus never mentioned these, so can't be!!!

In fact, Voyager can't be either, for the same reason!!!









Right?

[Mz Pip]

3. Champagne!

I read the article. Can't say that I understand it but I always enjoy reading about new discoveries in space. Thanks for posting these articles. :hi:

[Scuba]

11. Taittenger's, with a smattering of Dom for the more fortunate galaxies. Sweet!

[obxhead]

4. It's a shame we don't have an active program to follow these probes

with newer more advanced equipment.

For the cost of a few missiles we could be launching a new probe every few months in every direction. x(

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. I love it when scientists are surprised.

It just indicates how much more is out there for us to learn.

[Taverner]

7. Most scientists like to be surprised

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. Yep. Without the regular surprises there's no "wow" factor,

which is what brought them to science in the first place.

(Full disclosure - I am not a scientist, but I work with them on a daily basis.)

[Taverner]

6. Quick Question: If a human were flying through these, would they be a risk?

As in, could we, someday, travel through the magnetic bubbles?

[htuttle]

9. So, our solar system is surrounded by bubble wrap?

[Taverner]

10. The Great Church of the Bubblewrap

And they said...*pop*

*pop*

*pop*

*poppoppop*

[dickthegrouch]

12. Q's chainlink fence

To keep the dangerous, immature humans in their place until we learn that killing each other is BAD and unacceptable.

I won't hold my breath for its removal anytime soon, after seeing the gun thread this morning.

[atomic-fly]

13. very cool...

now I can see a good use for quantum entanglement...we could have the data
back immediately no matter how far away the probe is.
Probes not Drones!