Solar scientists use 'magnetic mirror effect' to reproduce IBEX observation
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 04:42
in Astronomy & Space
Ever since NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, mission scientists released the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system's edge in particles, solar physicists have been busy revising their models to account for the discovery of a narrow "ribbon" of bright emission that was completely unexpected and not predicted by any model at the time.