Voyager Finds Magnetic Foam at Solar System's Edge

The Voyager satellites are now traveling through the outer edge of the solar system, called the heliosheath. Using a computer model based on Voyager data, scientists have shown that the sun's magnetic field becomes bubbly in this region due to reconnection. Because of this, cosmic rays must slowly work their way through the magnetic foam before continuing on toward the sun.

[StopChangingUsernamesYouTube]

I don't think I'll ever stop being awed by just how useful two probes that were built near the dawn of semi-compact computing still are. They aren't our most sophisticated instruments at this point by a long shot, but the sensors included proved to be invaluable, and...really, how many others can say they've kept a computer of any sort running for over 43 years continuously, even in a controlled environment on Earth? NASA, you got some seriously good engineers.

[wargriffin]

So, wait...Earth has a magnetosphere to protect us from the Sun, and the Sun has a magnetosphere to protect us from interstellar radiation? What is with this universe!?!

[timefilm]

So we do indeed live in our own little bubble.

[mewratchanee]

My Father worked on both Voyager 1 & 2 at JPL as Senior Design Electrical Engineer. Before he died he told me that the power will last 10000 Years and every time someone says it will run out of power they did not know about the true power source that he helped to design

[Jamessss]

How do they keep in contact with this thing being so far away from earth?
Sometimes my cell phone has trouble getting a signal.

[Propplane]

Humankind's little giants...keep going and going. When we stop killing each other long enough, we are capable of such wonderful things.

[ryan-dqbd]

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[scottgerlach]

I love how we just keep learning how much we just dont know.

[paperchaseruzumaki]

If you listen to the lacerta files...she said " we live in a bubble in the foam of the omniverse"... universal foam she called it....the lacerta file has a lot of information we are now learning

[allensauce]

What is the orange stuff @0:42????

Is that interstellar wind? And if so, where does it come from?

[MichaelSkinner-ej]

A combination fusion power plant and drive- replicating the magnetic properties of the planets and the sun will be crucial for interstellar travel.

If you can get an O’Neill cylinder to externally accelerate to close to one percent the speed of light, you’re going have to protect it from not Only the radiation of Interstellar space, but stuff in front of it. That little stuff is going to be a big problem.
potentially

[PatrickHuang]

This means 2 things --
1) Universe is electromagnetic, perhaps more so than gravitic forces.
2) Light interacts with magnetic fields, and the point of interaction is bubbly. Could be a quantum layer as magnetic bubbles force light rays into streams between the bubbles, forcing the probability wave into a more defined point. Looks like the consciousness layer.

[PlasmaMongoose]

So the Solar System is covered in a type of bubblewrap? **temptation to pop increases**

[manojsaxena]

This layer is in general terms called shields found almost around all planets to protect them from anti radiation attacks.

[northerniltree]

So when I pour a frothy beer, it will be in the name of this new heliosphere outer edge discovery.

[Hexauslion]

well done video, very good perspective of how this works.

[Dra]

It's amazing that Voyager was able to detect as she passed through

[chellelynn]

Almost acts like the human body and the way cells work

[princevegeta-]

After 33 years they're still within the boundaries of our solar system

[eyal.herlin]

Thank you. Very interesting and informative.