Showing posts with label IBEX. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IBEX. Show all posts

Tuesday 7 February 2012

NASA explores the limits of the solar system


Interstellar Probe Boudary Explorer (IBEX) of NASA, recently reported new information on the interstellar medium, which lies beyond our solar system. This information could complement those already received by Voyager 1, which travels through space for 34 years and is about to leave our solar system.

The findings of this probe show that the composition of atoms in the interstellar medium is different from the solar system. According to NASA, this means that oxygen would be much more present at any location in the solar system than in the stellar environment.