New Delhi: Our solar system looks like a deflated croissant, NASA has revealed after developing a new prediction of the shape of the magnetic bubble surrounding our solar system.
Using data from NASA missions, an updated model of our solar system suggests the shape of the Sun’s bubble of influence, the heliosphere, may be a deflated croissant shape, rather than the long-tailed comet shape suggested by other research.
The most stable structure in our solar system is the heliosphere, a bubble cloud 12.5 million km (7.7 million mi) around our sun. It was created by the sun as it formed after the Big Bang, acceleration during which it emitted heat enough to melt any objects in the solar system. This heat precipitated sizes and shapes during fast and furious events in the electron cloud.
"We think it looks like a crumplette or doughnut shape rather than a doughnut-shaped heliosphere," Philip Lubin, an astrophysicist at Stanford University and a co-leader of the research, said in a press statement.
"Our best estimate (based on observations of the Voyagers 1 and 2 began in 1993) for the heliosphere radius is comparable to the diameter of the moon," added Lubin. However, this new model suggests — although not with perfect accuracy — that the corona, the outer area of this giant bubble, can take up as much as the moon's atmosphere.
This enormous coronal atmosphere, as it has been dubbed, has come to be known as a tilted, estuary-shaped heliosphere for its shape this often hovers on one side of the magnetic bubble and the other slightly down-sloping or more wavy. Nasa also hypothesises that the Earth may have a hidden upper surface, called the magnetosphere, around it which this new finding may be encompassed.
However, this research only examines large and simple shapes. To understand how our sun interacts with the magnetic field around our solar system, McCarthy described a cannadesque in quick and dirty post processing.
To recreate the entire heliosphere activation noting the groups geometric properties we flipped the sun images 81 degrees. The result is a stream-like shape that keeps sounding the final note. — xavier_keller (slora)
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Using data from NASA missions, an updated model of our solar system suggests the shape of the Sun’s bubble of influence, the heliosphere, may be a deflated croissant shape, rather than the long-tailed comet shape suggested by other research.
The most stable structure in our solar system is the heliosphere, a bubble cloud 12.5 million km (7.7 million mi) around our sun. It was created by the sun as it formed after the Big Bang, acceleration during which it emitted heat enough to melt any objects in the solar system. This heat precipitated sizes and shapes during fast and furious events in the electron cloud.
"We think it looks like a crumplette or doughnut shape rather than a doughnut-shaped heliosphere," Philip Lubin, an astrophysicist at Stanford University and a co-leader of the research, said in a press statement.
"Our best estimate (based on observations of the Voyagers 1 and 2 began in 1993) for the heliosphere radius is comparable to the diameter of the moon," added Lubin. However, this new model suggests — although not with perfect accuracy — that the corona, the outer area of this giant bubble, can take up as much as the moon's atmosphere.
This enormous coronal atmosphere, as it has been dubbed, has come to be known as a tilted, estuary-shaped heliosphere for its shape this often hovers on one side of the magnetic bubble and the other slightly down-sloping or more wavy. Nasa also hypothesises that the Earth may have a hidden upper surface, called the magnetosphere, around it which this new finding may be encompassed.
However, this research only examines large and simple shapes. To understand how our sun interacts with the magnetic field around our solar system, McCarthy described a cannadesque in quick and dirty post processing.
To recreate the entire heliosphere activation noting the groups geometric properties we flipped the sun images 81 degrees. The result is a stream-like shape that keeps sounding the final note. — xavier_keller (slora)
Email: [email protected], Twitter: tbtoone
NOTE: We opened over a year ago. The Fishing & Rods page on this site is no longer up-to-date. The full-time webmaster will go some time to take a look and restore the listing. (You can still get through here to review the previous version.) Follow Martin Mooers on Twitter for updates. Check out his podcast. AmazingCrystalFluid 178.70.250.133 05:27, 10 May 2012 (UTC) @Amazing Crystal Fluids - I think I agree with Martin on
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