In a paper published in the May 10 online issue of the esteemed journal Science Express, astronomers reveal that the Sun has no bow shock. The discovery was made using the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), a probe developed by NASA specifically to investigate such a potential structure.
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11 May 2012
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Researchers at the American space agency say that the latest investigation of the galactic wind has revealed a chemical composition that appears to be alien. In other words, these winds are not made of the same particles as the solar system.
The discovery was made using the NASA Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX... |
1 February 2012
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Some time ago, the IBEX spacecraft surveying the heliosphere discovered what could best be described as a “ribbon” of energy and particles permeating this protective sheet. Now, experts with the mission finally get some insight into the nature of this ribbon.
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2 April 2011
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According to the latest data sent back by a NASA spacecraft, it would appear that the amount of activity going on at the edge of our solar system is a lot higher than anyone first calculated. Using data from the American space agency's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, the researchers were a... |
1 October 2010
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A collaboration of research institutes and private companies in the United States recently managed to gain new knowledge into how our planet's magnetosphere protects us from solar winds. As the Sun explodes, turns and churns, it emits jets of highly-energetic particles known as the solar wind towards our planet ... |
17 August 2010
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The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission that NASA ran a few years ago was one of the most interesting ones in terms of discoveries. The experts handling the instrument managed to compile and create one of the most detailed maps of the edge of our solar system, but in particles. This allowed researchers to o... |
13 January 2010
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Data from satellites charged with producing a map of our solar system and its limits have revealed that our “bubble” ends with a very narrow ribbon of densely packed neutral atoms, rather than with an area of evenly distributed ones. The fringes of the solar system can only be imagined, astronomers say, i... |
16 October 2009
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The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft is the first probe sent to space whose mission is to accurately assess the boundary between our solar system and the surrounding outer space. Launched last October aboard a Pegasus-XL rocket, the craft has recently managed to discover a very peculiar phenomenon, cl... |
22 June 2009
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Researchers from the Center of Food Technology and Research of Aragon, in Spain, led by Dr Jose Folch, have managed to successfully clone an extinct subspecies of the Spanish Ibex, namely the Pyrenean Ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica), also known as the bucardo. The animal went extinct in 2000, when the last known exe... |
2 February 2009
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Two days ago, the small probe that represents the accomplishment of the efforts of Southwest Research Institute experts, was successfully launched into space on a Pegasus rocket carried by an L-1011 jet plane at high altitude above the Pacific. The probe was carried by the Pegasus for about 130 miles onto its orbit ... |
21 October 2008
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Domestic goat kids can be white and fluffy (depending on the case). But that's normal, and this is a genetic pattern that does not match the genetic condition of albinism, when the brown melanin pigment cannot be synthesized. But now, forest rangers in the northern Italian Alps have confirmed and got image proof... |
26 June 2007
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Ancient ferocious Celtic warriors knew why they put horns on their helmets (it was the Celts, not the Vikings, that adorned their helmets!). Because a bigger horn means you are a better male. This is real, at least in the case of the alpine ibex. A new research found a perfect correlation between horn size of mature ... |
8 June 2007
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