Posted on 10/10/2022 2:10:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Data from a spacecraft orbiting Earth has revealed ripple structures in the termination shock and heliopause: shifting regions of space that mark one of the boundaries between the space inside the Solar System, and...interstellar space.
...Sun affects the space around it...solar wind, a constant supersonic flow of ionized plasma. It blows out past the planets and the Kuiper Belt, eventually petering out in the great emptiness between the stars.
The point at which this flow falls below the speed at which sound waves can travel through the diffuse interstallar medium is called the termination shock, and the point at which it is no longer strong enough to push back against the very slight pressure of interstellar space is the heliopause.
Both Voyager probes have crossed the heliopause and are, effectively, now cruising through interstellar space, providing us the first in situ measurements of this shifting boundary.
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX)
IBEX measures energized neutral atoms, which are created when the Sun's solar wind collides with the interstellar wind at the Solar System boundary. Some of those atoms are catapulted further out into space, while others are flung back at Earth. Once the strength of the solar wind that produced them is taken into account, energized neutral particles that return our way can be used to map the shape of the boundary, a bit like cosmic echolocation.
Previous maps of the structure of the heliosphere have relied on long-scale measures of the evolution of solar wind pressure and energetic neutral atom emissions, which resulted in a smoothing of the boundary in both space and time. But in 2014, over a period of roughly six months, the dynamic pressure of the solar wind increased by roughly 50 percent.
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The sky is falling!! The sky is falling!!
Champipple!
Oh no interprise is returning at warp speed
Somehow I knew Fred G. Sanford would show up soon ...
I detect a disruption in the force field.
Jeepers! What is it, Augie Ben Doggie? Did you feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced?
No, just a little headache.
Fred would never miss a good Ripple.
There is a fountain, that was not made
by the hands of man...
But in 2014, over a period of roughly six months, the dynamic pressure of the solar wind increased by roughly 50 percent.
Odd, you think we’d notice that, maybe they need to
recalibrate...
Let it out slower.
That only prolongs the suffering.
Strange Ripples Have Been Detected at The Edge of The Solar System
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Out Solar System is staying in one of those cheap motels where you put a quarter in the coin slot and the bed vibrates.
Interstellar illegals trying to invade the Solar System!
The whole universe hates that guy.
Trump’s fault. Womyn and minorities hardest hit.
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