First images of solar system's invisible frontier
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 12:28
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley, scientists to map for the first time the energized particles in the region where the hot solar wind slams into the cold interstellar medium.
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