interstellar medium
NASA Voyager Probes Still Going Strong After 40 Years
The Voyager probes, humanity's longest-running and farthest-reaching missions, are celebrating their 40th anniversaries this summer!
6 years ago
What Will the Voyager Spacecraft Encounter Next? Hubble Helps Provide a Roadmap
The twin Voyager spacecraft are now making their way through the interstellar medium. Even though they are going where none…
6 years ago
IBEX Captures ‘Alien’ Material From Beyond Our Solar System
[/caption] If we could board the starship Enterprise-D and were able to look through Giordi LaForge's visor we might be…
11 years ago
Did A Supernova Shape Our Solar System?
[/caption] Away in space some 4.57 billion years ago, in a galaxy yet to be called the Milky Way, a…
11 years ago
Ultraluminous Gamma Ray Burst 080607 – A “Monster in the Dark”
[/caption] Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic phenomena astronomers regularly observe. These events are triggered by massive…
13 years ago
Local Interstellar Gas Mapped in 3-D
[/caption] Astronomers have created a new 3D map of the interstellar gas in the local area around our Sun. "Local"…
13 years ago