11 December 2018
Voyager 2 joins its twin in interstellar space
..., Voyager 2 crosses the protective bubble of the heliosphere surrounding the planets and ventures into the realm of interstellar space to join with its twin, Voyager 1. The trailblazing spacecraft is now slightly more than 18 billion kilometers...
12 June 2020
New Horizon breaks record with first interstellar parallax experiment
... billion miles) from Earth, the distant probe has now notched up another new first; the first interstellar parallax experiment. The first known astronomical measurement using parallax is thought to have occurred in 189 B.C., by Greek astronomer...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
..., as the probes hurtle from the ‘heliosheath’ - a zone where the clutches of the solar winds loosen - into interstellar space. Mounted on these craft are golden discs that contain ‘sounds and images selected to portray the...
29 June 2016
Researchers detect interstellar organic materials being fed into a young planetary system
... 50 times wider than the Earth’s orbit, has been detected around a Solar-type protostar, showing that interstellar organic materials are being fed into a rotating disk structure that eventually forms a planetary system. Using...
March 2017
Planetary nebulae may hold clue in search of helium-3
... at the time of its formation 4.6 billion years ago. Observed values of 3He in pre-solar material and the interstellar medium (ISM) imply that the abundance of this isotope (relative to hydrogen) should be around 2.5 × 10-5. This figure, coupled...
September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
... to large-scale galactic and intergalactic dynamics. They also have a significant contribution to the hydrostatic balance in the interstellar medium. Unfortunately, much remains unknown about how these fields are generated or how they are evolving...
