Voyager Squashes View of Solar System (NASA Gallery)

Submitted by Pete on Fri, 22/08/2008 - 3:05pm.

This artist's rendering depicts NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft as it studies the outer limits of the heliosphere--a magnetic 'bubble' around the solar system that is created by the solar wind. The magnetic bubble is not spherical, but pressed inward in the southern hemisphere, according to recent data published as part of a series of papers in the Ju

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