NASA’s Voyager 1 Revealed A Stunning Discovery At The Edge Of Our Solar System
Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 traveled further than any spacecraft in human history. After a silent endurance in space for more than twenty years, it is now going beyond the orbit of the outer planets of the solar system. His mission exceeded the planetary flybys; Now the first direct way to explore the interstate field of humanity. NASA used radio to talk to Voyager 1 He stumbled into something surprisingly hidden in the farthest parts of our solar system: a mysterious “Fire Wall”. This may seem to have come out of a sci -fi story, but it’s part of the real final limit that no one has gone before. This is still being investigated by what this “wall of fire” actually represents, but is shown as Heliopause – in other words, the border line with any effect on anything beyond our sun.
This outer layer is formed by the solar winds interacting with interstellar gases, which results in excessive -heated plasma. Voyager discovered that this remote region of our solar system has reached extremely hot temperatures of 30,000 to 50,000 Kelvin (54,000 to 90,000 Fahrenheit). Fortunately, for the spacecraft like Voyager, this heat is too low to transfer, so we can continue to send a probe without risk of overheating. However, this discovery on the edge of our solar system is only more than a scientific milestone.
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Tips of Helliopause
HELIOPAZUR’S FULL – NASA/IBEX/ADLER PLANETARİM/Wikimedia Commons
What scientists call the “Fire Wall” is more officially known as Heliopause. It is the invisible limit that marks the outermost edge of the effect of the sun. Heliosphere, Sun wind – The flow of loaded particles that are constantly blown out of the sun – protects our solar system from hard radiation from the interstellar space. However, this protective effect has a limit. At a certain point, the solar wind collides with the stars and a turbulent boundary with ionized gas and plasma (and other particles known as interstellar environment).
It is not only the existence of Helliopause that is very striking; Also unexpected excesses Voyager 1 discovered there (I’m not even talking about a strange hum. As the spacecraft approaches this border, his instruments made sudden changes in particle density and magnetic fields. These are the signatures of a more turbulent region than scientists imagined. Instead of a smooth and gradual fading between the Sun and the interstate gap, the Voyager found sudden shifts, almost taking steps through a threshold.
The most amazing revelation was the dynamics of temperature. Near the heliopause, the loaded particles are trapped and jammed and form extraordinary heat zones. Other nearby areas remain relatively cool. This produces a hot and cold plasma patchwork, unlike nothing observed in the Heliosphere. Therefore, this contrast was nicknamed the “Wall of Fire”, which aroused the image of fiery energy conflicts on the border of the solar system.
The magnetic environment has added another bending. Voyager 1 detected magnetic field lines that look stronger and more regular than expected. This suggests that interstellar magnetic fields can make more pressure than he believed before the Heliosfe. This tension between the magnetic fields is what shapes the border and fights like a balloon under pressure.
Journey from Fire Wall
Voyager 1’s Sun System Opinion – NASA, ESA and G. BACON (STSCI)/Wikimedia Commons
Together, these discoveries reveal that the edge of our solar system is not a silent fading at a dynamic boundary, not galactic width. Powers from and beyond conflict shape and shape each other in unpredictable forms. For scientists, the solar system border is a laboratory on its own, where natural experiments emerge to reveal how stars and planetary systems produce bubbles in the galaxy.
Voyager 1 is now traveling in the interstellar field and he has never seen every measurement of his measurement, a first for humanity. The solar wind has already passed to the area where weak. There, the magnetic fields grow more complex, and the particles beyond our solar system begin to dominate. Moreover, Helliopause is not a solid wall, but a dynamic, gear -changing interface between the two realms. It separates the familiar area and wide unknown area directed by our Sun beyond the boundaries of our solar system. Voyager 1 Investigation of this border helps scientists answer questions about how our solar system interacts with the rest of our galaxy and how much the effect of the sun really extends. What lies in the area beyond?
Each weak signal Voyager 1 sends back to Earth, has to travel more than 24 billion kilometers to reach us, and each of these signals is just part of the answer. But now we know that our solar system is not just finished suddenly: the rest of the galaxy goes to a complex and fiery border.
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