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Voyager Makes an Interstellar Discovery
12.23.2009

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December 23, 2009: The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA's Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery.

see caption"Using data from Voyager, we have discovered a strong magnetic field just outside the solar system," explains lead author Merav Opher, a NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator from George Mason University. "This magnetic field holds the interstellar cloud together and solves the long-standing puzzle of how it can exist at all."

Right: Voyager flies through the outer bounds of the heliosphere en route to interstellar space. A strong magnetic field reported by Opher et al in the Dec. 24, 2009, issue of Nature is delineated in yellow. Image copyright 2009, The American Museum of Natural History. [larger image]

The discovery has implications for the future when the solar system will eventually bump into other, similar clouds in our arm of the Milky Way galaxy.


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Astronomers call the cloud we're running into now the Local Interstellar Cloud or "Local Fluff" for short. It's about 30 light years wide and contains a wispy mixture of hydrogen and helium atoms at a temperature of 6000 C. The existential mystery of the Fluff has to do with its surroundings. About 10 million years ago, a cluster of supernovas exploded nearby, creating a giant bubble of million-degree gas. The Fluff is completely surrounded by this high-pressure supernova exhaust and should be crushed or dispersed by it.

"The observed temperature and density of the local cloud do not provide enough pressure to resist the 'crushing action' of the hot gas around it," says Opher.

So how does the Fluff survive? The Voyagers have found an answer.

"Voyager data show that the Fluff is much more strongly magnetized than anyone had previously suspected—between 4 and 5 microgauss*," says Opher. "This magnetic field can provide the extra pressure required to resist destruction."

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Above: An artist's concept of the Local Interstellar Cloud, also known as the "Local Fluff." Credit: Linda Huff (American Scientist) and Priscilla Frisch (University of Chicago) [more]

NASA's two Voyager probes have been racing out of the solar system for more than 30 years. They are now beyond the orbit of Pluto and on the verge of entering interstellar space—but they are not there yet.

"The Voyagers are not actually inside the Local Fluff," says Opher. "But they are getting close and can sense what the cloud is like as they approach it."

The Fluff is held at bay just beyond the edge of the solar system by the sun's magnetic field, which is inflated by solar wind into a magnetic bubble more than 10 billion km wide. Called the "heliosphere," this bubble acts as a shield that helps protect the inner solar system from galactic cosmic rays and interstellar clouds. The two Voyagers are located in the outermost layer of the heliosphere, or "heliosheath," where the solar wind is slowed by the pressure of interstellar gas.

Voyager 1 entered the heliosheath in Dec. 2004; Voyager 2 followed almost 3 years later in Aug. 2007. These crossings were key to Opher et al's discovery.

see captionRight: The anatomy of the heliosphere. Since this illustration was made, Voyager 2 has joined Voyager 1 inside the heliosheath, a thick outer layer where the solar wind is slowed by the pressure of interstellar gas. Credit: NASA/Walt Feimer. [larger image]

The size of the heliosphere is determined by a balance of forces: Solar wind inflates the bubble from the inside while the Local Fluff compresses it from the outside. Voyager's crossings into the heliosheath revealed the approximate size of the heliosphere and, thus, how much pressure the Local Fluff exerts. A portion of that pressure is magnetic and corresponds to the ~5 microgauss Opher's team has reported in Nature.

The fact that the Fluff is strongly magnetized means that other clouds in the galactic neighborhood could be, too. Eventually, the solar system will run into some of them, and their strong magnetic fields could compress the heliosphere even more than it is compressed now. Additional compression could allow more cosmic rays to reach the inner solar system, possibly affecting terrestrial climate and the ability of astronauts to travel safely through space. On the other hand, astronauts wouldn't have to travel so far because interstellar space would be closer than ever. These events would play out on time scales of tens to hundreds of thousands of years, which is how long it takes for the solar system to move from one cloud to the next.

"There could be interesting times ahead!" says Opher. spiral on
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for fluff!

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fluff on fellow fluffer and stuff. 1rof1
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Clicking for a larger image at the link is nice.
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In normal world, magnetic fields are created by electric currents. Period.

A stream of charged particles (i.e. the "solar wind") is not wind, it is an electric current. It does not "inflate" a "magnetic bubble", it creates a magnetic field.

The universe is electric.

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wow. just wow...
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Nice we have a big old 10 billion mile cushion protecting us!
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In normal world, magnetic fields are created by electric currents. Period.

A stream of charged particles (i.e. the "solar wind") is not wind, it is an electric current. It does not "inflate" a "magnetic bubble", it creates a magnetic field.

The universe is electric.

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Indeed its a Plasma Universe, Gravity takes the back seat.
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In normal world, magnetic fields are created by electric currents. Period.

A stream of charged particles (i.e. the "solar wind") is not wind, it is an electric current. It does not "inflate" a "magnetic bubble", it creates a magnetic field.

The universe is electric.

[link to thunderbolts.info]
 Quoting: DrKnow


Precisely.

However, the current crop of Standard Model Ricky Retardos will have to die off before the obvious can be recognized, and incorporated into a new Theory.

That's just how Science works!

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You'd think they would expect stuff like that. When two or more opposing flows meet, standing waves aren't uncommon at all.
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sorry i stole your pin Fish! :(
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Yes I noticed that ..the other one was talking about getting his first pin and then he got it. Oh well I have had 2 pins now ..lol



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sorry i stole your pin Fish! :(
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Hya Mr. Muggles maybe we both should get a pin out of this..Its that good subject I think and theres no telling what else Voyager is going to discover...ya know like maye a huge alien junkyard? :5:




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sorry i stole your pin Fish! :(





Hya Mr. Muggles maybe we both should get a pin out of this..Its that good subject I think and theres no telling what else Voyager is going to discover...ya know like maye a huge alien junkyard? :5:




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I know! I couldn't believe it when I came across the article. It opens up a whole new realm of....well...of everything!
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AUSSIE BLOKE WAS RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Maybe something like an interstellar version of L-4 and L-5 points?
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sorry i stole your pin Fish! :(





Hya Mr. Muggles maybe we both should get a pin out of this..Its that good subject I think and theres no telling what else Voyager is going to discover...ya know like maye a huge alien junkyard? :5:




massivebla



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I know! I couldn't believe it when I came across the article. It opens up a whole new realm of....well...of everything!
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I always like that livescience site too and just had wow feeling about it when I read it. Lots of discoverys coming and it just more around the bend in 2010.







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Noticed that too!
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MAAAAGNETIC FIELDS CREATE ELECTRICITY.
MAAAAGNETIC FIELDS CREATE ELECTRICITY.
ITS MAAAAAGNETIC FIELDS THAT PUUUUUL ELECTRICITY INTO EGGG-SISTENCE
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Noticed that too!
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The leading shock front of a Galactic Core Mass Ejection (GCME) has arrived.

That is why the solar cycle has changed.
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The leading shock front of a Galactic Core Mass Ejection (GCME) has arrived.

That is why the solar cycle has changed.
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Good post Fish...have you checked out the Petroglyph thread? It is also looking into the plasma theory. Some good information there.

I had just posted a link to Paul LaViolette's site on there. Impressive ideas he has.



Just a quote LaViolette has on his site: [link to www.etheric.com]

The time will inevitably come when mechanistic and atomic thinking will be put out of the minds of all people of wisdom, and instead dynamics and chemistry will come to be seen in all phenomena. When that happens, the divinity of living Nature will unfold before our eyes all the more clearly. - Johann von Goethe, 1812
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The leading shock front of a Galactic Core Mass Ejection (GCME) has arrived.

That is why the solar cycle has changed.
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Dude, a galactic core mass ejection would more commonly be called a quasar. The first thing we'd notice with something like that would be our deaths.
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MAAAAGNETIC FIELDS CREATE ELECTRICITY.
MAAAAGNETIC FIELDS CREATE ELECTRICITY.
ITS MAAAAAGNETIC FIELDS THAT PUUUUUL ELECTRICITY INTO EGGG-SISTENCE
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Good post Fish...have you checked out the Petroglyph thread? It is also looking into the plasma theory. Some good information there.

I had just posted a link to Paul LaViolette's site on there. Impressive ideas he has.



Just a quote LaViolette has on his site: [link to www.etheric.com]

The time will inevitably come when mechanistic and atomic thinking will be put out of the minds of all people of wisdom, and instead dynamics and chemistry will come to be seen in all phenomena. When that happens, the divinity of living Nature will unfold before our eyes all the more clearly. - Johann von Goethe, 1812
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Thanks SmilinIrisheyes


I bookmarked this and going to check it out




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The leading shock front of a Galactic Core Mass Ejection (GCME) has arrived.

That is why the solar cycle has changed.


Dude, a galactic core mass ejection would more commonly be called a quasar. The first thing we'd notice with something like that would be our deaths.
 Quoting: The Guy


No Quasar. Like a solar coronal mass ejection, the galactic core mass ejection travels at a small fraction of the speed of light.





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