01 November 2017
Voyager 1 spies unexpected light at the outer edges of the Solar System
...); an area which is also known as the heliospheric interface. The first boundary of the heliospheric interface – the termination shock (TS) – has been crossed by both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in 2004 and in 2007, respectively. It is also reported that...
11 October 2016
GRB afterglow observed by ALMA for the first time
... simultaneously.” Nonetheless the team further state that, “the best model implies a forward shock evolving through a wind environment with a termination shock.” While this research may not have conclusively proved what phenomena gave rise to GRB...
June 2022
Sunshades in space could help alleviate Earth’s climate crisis
... would require sustained chemical injection into our atmosphere to avoid the catastrophic climate snapback of termination shock. Artist’s concept showing Solar Cruiser and the Sun. Sustainable option The O’Neillian alternative to atmospheric...
October 2026
Redefining the edge of the solar system
...not where we first imagine them to be. The ‘edge’ of the atmosphere is not a sharp line; the heliosphere’s termination shock is not a simple sphere. The solar system’s gravitational frontier may be similarly nuanced as a region defined not by a sharp...
11 October 2018
Voyager/Hello from Planet Earth (CD / DVD set)
... one) and ‘Saturn and Beyond’ (side two) with track titles such as ‘Inferno at Io’, ‘Shepherd Moons’ and ‘Termination Shock’. The music is predictably ‘spacey’ and largely synthesiser-generated. The album’s website quotes the genre as “rock...
