IBEX Satellite Finds Ribbon-like Structure At Edge Of Heliosphere

10/16/09 The invisible structures of space are becoming less so, as scientists look out to the far edges of the solar wind bubble that separates our solar system from the interstellar cloud through which it flies. Using the High Energy Neutral Atom Imager, the NASA Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission has sent back data that indicates a "noodle soup" of solar material has accumulated at the ...

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IBEX Explores Galactic Frontier, Releases First-Ever All-Sky Map

10/18/09 NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft has made it possible for scientists to construct the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system and its location in the Milky Way galaxy.

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Mysterious "Ribbon" Of Energy And Particles Isolated

03/31/11 by Staff Writers Durham NH (SPX) Apr 01, 2011 In a paper to be published in the April, 2011, issue of The Astrophysical Journal, scientists on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission, including lead author Nathan Schwadron and others from the University of New Hampshire, isolate and resolve the mysterious "ribbon" of energy and particles the spacecraft discovered in the heliosphere ...

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