Echoes

Voyager 2...[entered] the heliosheath on Aug. 30, 2007. Because Voyager 2 crossed the heliosheath boundary, called the solar wind termination shock, about 16 billion kilometers (10 billion miles) away from Voyager 1 and almost 1.6 billion kilometers (a billion miles) closer to the sun, it confirmed that our solar system is "squashed" or "dented"- that the bubble carved into interstellar space by the solar wind is not perfectly round. Where Voyager 2 made its crossing, the bubble is pushed in closer to the sun by the local interstellar magnetic field.

Oh, this universe. These humans. Always discovering one thing or another. 1 discovery begets 10 mysteries beget 100 discoveries beget 1000 mysteries, and on and on.



everything swinging
everything spinning about
everything. we keep discovering that it's just a bigger circle, or a bigger orbit, we're almost there, we're in this 'this'. i've almost got it, i'm on the verge of a
scientific breakthrough.

Mon, Dec 17, 2007  Permanent link
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