Showing posts with label interstellar space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interstellar space. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Interstellar 'Tsunami Waves' Sweep Past Voyager 1
Source - NASA Science News for Dec. 16, 2014
Since 2012, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced three 'tsunami waves' in interstellar space. The most recent, which reached the spacecraft earlier this year, is still propagating outward according to new data.
The complete article can be found here: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/16dec_voyagercme/
Saturday, November 02, 2013
The Sounds of Interstellar Space
Source - NASA Science News for Nov. 1, 2013
As Voyager 1 recedes from the solar system, researchers are hoping the spacecraft will beam back tones from plasma waves, a form of "interstellar music" that reveals conditions in the realm of the stars.
The complete article can be found here: http://science.nasa.gov/
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Thursday, September 12, 2013
Voyager Captures Sounds of Interstellar Space
Source - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Sep 6, 2013
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft captured these sounds of interstellar space. Voyager 1's plasma wave instrument detected the vibrations of dense interstellar plasma, or ionized gas, from October to November 2012 and April to May 2013.
The graphic shows the frequency of the waves, which indicate the density of the plasma. Colors indicate the intensity of the waves, or how "loud" they are. Red indicates the loudest waves and blue indicates the weakest.
The soundtrack reproduces the amplitude and frequency of the plasma waves as "heard" by Voyager 1. The waves detected by the instrument antennas can be simply amplified and played through a speaker. These frequencies are within the range heard by human ears.
Scientists noticed that each occurrence involved a rising tone. The dashed line indicates that the rising tones follow the same slope. This means a continuously increasing density.
When scientists extrapolated this line even further back in time (not shown), they deduced that Voyager 1 first encountered interstellar plasma in August 2012.
The Voyager spacecraft were built and continue to be operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. The Voyager missions are a part of NASA's Heliophysics System Observatory, sponsored by the Heliophysics Division of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
For more information about Voyager, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/voyager and http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov .
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Iowa
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Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System
Source - NASA Science News for Sept. 12, 2013
In an unexpected turn of events, researchers have realized that Voyager 1 left the solar system about a year ago. This event sets in motion a new era of exploration of the realm between the stars.
The complete article can be found here: http://science.nasa.gov/
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Voyager 1 Approaches Interstellar Space
Source - NASA Science News for June 27, 2013
Three papers published in today's issue of Science suggest that Voyager 1, now more than 18 billion kilometers from the sun, is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar space.
The complete article can be found here: http://science.nasa.gov/
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Voyager 1 Tastes Interstellar Space
Source - NASA Science News for Dec. 4, 2012
Eleven billion miles from Earth, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a "magnetic highway" that connects our solar system to interstellar space. This could be one of Voyager 1's last steps on its long journey to the stars.
The complete article can be found here: http://science.nasa.gov/
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Voyager 1 at the Final Frontier
Source - NASA Science News for June 22, 2012
At the edge of the solar system, Voyager 1 is reporting a sharp increase in cosmic rays that could herald the spacecraft's long-awaited breakthrough into interstellar space.
The full story can be found here: http://science.nasa.gov/
A companion video is posted below and can also be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
At the edge of the solar system, Voyager 1 is reporting a sharp increase in cosmic rays that could herald the spacecraft's long-awaited breakthrough into interstellar space.
The full story can be found here: http://science.nasa.gov/
A companion video is posted below and can also be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Thursday, June 09, 2011
A Big Surprise from the Edge of the Solar System
Source - NASA Science News for June 9, 2011
NASA's Voyager probes have reached the edge of the solar system and found something surprising there--a froth of magnetic bubbles separating us from the rest of the galaxy.
FULL STORY at
http://science.nasa.gov/
Video source ScienceAtNASA on Jun 9, 2011:
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