01 November 2017
Voyager 1 spies unexpected light at the outer edges of the Solar System
...medium, having crossed the second boundary - the heliopause – in 2012. The heliopause is the boundary of the heliosphere that separates ... a dense layer of hydrogen atoms exists near the heliopause. If this is correct, then it would provide additional...
04 November 2019
Its official! Voyager 2 has passed into interstellar space
... observations, together with the Voyager 1 observations and existing models, show that the magnetic barrier, the heliopause and the neighbouring very local interstellar medium form a complex interconnected dynamical system,” writes Leonard Bulgara...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... accelerated to even higher energies, creating a population of particles called anomalous cosmic rays. We also observe that the heliopause is not a ‘hard’ boundary since solar-system oxygen leaks through and is found in the heliosheath mixing with...
11 December 2018
Voyager 2 joins its twin in interstellar space
... subsystem and the magnetometer – it was enough evidence to support the conclusion that Voyager 2 has crossed the heliopause into the unknown. “Working on Voyager makes me feel like an explorer, because everything we’re seeing is new,” said John...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... Support,” in Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference, Maui, HI, 2010. 16 B. M. Wiegmann, “The Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System (HERTS), First Year Report,” NASA-MSFC, Advanced Concepts Office, Huntsville...
