Space

Froth of magnetic bubbles at edge of solar system

NASA’s Voyager probes – now nine billion miles from Earth, heading out of our solar system – have entered a strange realm of frothy magnetic bubbles, according to NASA scientists, who released this video about the discovery on June 9, 2011.

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June 9, 2011
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