Note: this topic is from October 18, 2009. Thanks Defiant.
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Posted on 10/18/2009 9:05:17 PM PDT by Defiant
NASA scientists have discovered a mysterious ribbon around our solar system —- a stripe made of hydrogen —- that defies all current expectations about what the edge of the solar system might look like.
Richard Fisher, the director of NASA's Heliophysics Division, tells NPR's Guy Raz that this discovery is a big moment for the scientific community. "We thought we knew everything about everything, and it turned out that there were unknown unknowns."
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Just more proof of the amorphous nature of science.
I agree.
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Oh wow that’s a beautiful locket. Is there a place to buy it?
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