SCIENCE IN THE NEWS DAILY
We're Living in a Space Cloud
from Discovery News
A NASA robotic probe sampling particles flowing into our solar system from the galactic
neighborhood shows we're living in a cloud--and likely to stay that way for hundreds or even
thousands of years.
The measurements from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft include the
first direct samplings of hydrogen, oxygen and neon that didn't come from the sun or anywhere
else in the solar system.
Instead, the gases, along with helium, which was previously detected by NASA's Ulysses
spacecraft, streamed into our solar system from the galactic neighborhood, which right now
includes a tenuous wispy cloud.
Read more...
Science in the Media
Newspapers:
Magazines and Web Sites:
The Science-Media Intersection:
Subscribe to Our Content!
Visit our RSS Feeds page to choose among 13 customized feeds, or create a free My AmSci account to request an email notice whenever a specified author, department or discipline appears online.