The edge of the solar system is filled with rough seas of magnetic bubbles, astronomers said Thursday. The changes come up with ideas on the remote region and how the rest of the galaxy in interaction with the solar system.
The two Voyager spacecraft, which spent more than three decades, moving toward the outer edge of our solar system found unexpected changes in the magnetic field that extends outward from the Sun. This discovery was made when they reached the heliosheath that the outer solar system is called.
The long sausage-shaped magnetic bubble is about 160 million miles wide. A computer model was used to smash the satellite data to postulate their existence because they are not visible to the naked eye.
They make the area very turbulent, ;just like the bubbliest parts of your bathtub,; says University of Maryland astronomer James Drake.
The finding means that harmful galactic cosmic radiation access to the rest of the solar galaxy must first pass through the sea of bubbles, causing them to bounce around like a pinball before finally entering the solar system. Scientists have measured time-rays, which may be adverse health effects for astronauts, but this may change theories of beams and how to reach us from interstellar space.
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 has reached the helios Heath in the last ten years and will continue to travel through.
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