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The Interstellar Medium along the Sun’s Trajectory
Published on 11 Jan 2007 at 12:55 pm.
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With things finally winding down, I get to post a bit more about some of the things that I saw at the AAS Meeting. I had been looking to do some of this quite some time ago, but this has been a pretty wild week.
Earlier in the week, I met a young man, Ryland Brooks, […]
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The Voyagers and the Heliosphere
Published on 13 Nov 2006 at 5:42 pm.
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Far from the Sun, two tiny spacecraft sail onward heading out of the Solar System into interstellar space. Voyager 1, is now a distance of just about 101 Astronomical Units from the Sun, and Voyager 2 is over 81 Astronomical Units out. Both spacecraft were launched in 1977 to study the outer planets of our Solar System. […]
