Voyager 1 Entered Weird Region In Space Last Summer

.popsci.com ^ | Posted 06.28.2013 at 6:00 pm | Francie Diep

[BenLurkin]

New papers describe an unexpected boundary region at the edge of the influence of the Sun.

A few different effects mark the area, which astronomers have dubbed the "heliosheath depletion region" or a "magnetic highway." The number of charged particles from the Sun there is very low. Measurements of cosmic rays from other, non-Sun sources, are high. Together, the measurements suggest a new boundary region between the heliosphere—the bubble around the Sun, in which the Sun exerts its influence—and interstellar space. Astronomers had not previously guessed such a region existed.

[Larry Lucido]

Well, there WAS a sign that read “Caution: Weird Region Ahead.”

[oh8eleven]

Well, there WAS a sign that read “Caution: Weird Region Ahead.”
Otherwise known as San Francisco.

[neodad]

The neutral zone......

[Jeff Head]

The “Outer Limits.”

[UCANSEE2]

I guess when they get to the Heliopause, they will find there are NO charged particles from the Sun.

[TigersEye]

On the back of that sign is says No Trespassing!

[Delta 21]

....and its only taken us 36 years to get there.

Hows that interstellar space travel workin out for ya?

[Paladin2]

More bang for the buck than 0bamaDontCare.

[fella]

The science on this has been settled by consensus, there can be no argument, it is time to pass laws to stop mankind’s destruction of “heliosheath depletion region”.

[The Louiswu]

"Hows that interstellar space travel workin out for ya?"

Indeed.

I love it when someone announces they might have found more earth-like planets then forget to mention that it would take thousand of years to reach the closest one with current technology.

I am a huge fan of space exploration but I have come to realize that the human race might explore some of our own solar system with manned flights, interstellar travel in an impossibility now and for hundreds of years and perhaps forever.

[SMGFan]

I saw a movie about Voyager 6.
Star Trek : The Motion Picture. :)
But you know it a V’ger

[traderrob6]

“Astronomers had not previously guessed such a region existed.”

So they just figured that the suns “influence” was unending

[mikrofon]

Magnetic Highway, little sunshine
Where the days are longer
The nights are stronger than moonshine
You’re gonna go [on], I know (o-oh-o-oh-o-oh-o-oh-oh)

‘Cuz the solar wind’s not blowin’ too much there,
And the dark surrounds you everywhere
Power’s dying, no despair
Alien lizards will be there, will be there...

[BenLurkin]

Very good!

[NonValueAdded]

Benson, Arizona
Blew warm wind through your hair
My body flies the galaxy, my heart longs to be there
Benson, Arizona
The same stars in the sky
But they seemed so much kinder
When we watched them, you and I

[BenLurkin]

Great flick!

[Gen.Blather]

“....and its only taken us 36 years to get there.

Hows that interstellar space travel workin out for ya?”

Yet, it’s so obvious that creatures travel trillions of miles to make crop circles in Yorkshire and inspect the colon of a red neck in leaving a bar in Louisville. They must have teenagers after all.

[a fool in paradise]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin. Extra to APoD members.