14 new IBEX data based research papers on Solar System’s boundary

14 new IBEX data based research papers on Solar System’s boundary

Data obtained by NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), a mission providing the most definitive analyses, theories and results about local interstellar space to date, was presented in fourteen new research papers published on October 20, 2015, in a…

A new view of the Solar System: astrophysical jets driven by the Sun

A new view of the Solar System: astrophysical jets driven by the Sun

As the sun skims through the galaxy, it flings out charged particles in a stream of plasma called the solar wind, and the solar wind creates a bubble extending far outside the solar system known as the heliosphere. For decades, scientists have visualized the heliosphere

IBEX – Plasma ribbon confirms Electric Sun

IBEX – Plasma ribbon confirms Electric Sun

NASA's IBEX and Voyager 1 missions have shattered all conventional ideas about the heliospheric boundary, the region separating our solar system from interstellar space. In 2009, the IBEX spacecraft created the first all-sky map of the boundary revealing an