Science news articles about 'termination shock'

... produced by supernova cosmic shocks." Kurth noted that while some aspects of the termination shock matched scientists' expectations, a number of the observations made by Voyager were surprising ...

... as the solar wind piles up against the gas in interstellar space. This boundary, called the termination shock, marks the beginning of our solar system's final frontier, a vast expanse of turbulent ...

... Voyager spacecraft are making fascinating observations of the local conditions at two points beyond the termination shock that show totally unexpected results and challenge many of our notions about ...

... of the region in space where the solar wind collides with interstellar gas to form the termination shock – the boundary of the huge, magnetic bubble that surrounds the Sun known as the heliosphere. ...