A Tale of Two Comets: Encke
How did scientists know that NASA Voyager spacecraft entered interstellar space? Increase in the density of charged particles was the key piece of evidence. Our sun sits in a bubble, called the heliosphere, carved out by wind emitted from the hot sun.
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November 25, 2013
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