Edge of Solar System Filled with Bubbles, NASA Says | NASA & Voyager Spacecraft | The Solar System & Milky Way | Space.com

Edge of Solar System Filled with Bubbles, NASA Says | NASA & Voyager Spacecraft | The Solar System & Milky Way | Space.com: "The edge of our solar system is filled with a turbulent sea of magnetic bubbles, according to new NASA research.

Scientists made the discovery by using a new computer model, which is based on data from NASA's twin Voyager probes. The unmanned Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, which launched in 1977, are plying the outer reaches of our solar system, a region known as the heliosheath.

The new discovery suggests that researchers will need to revise their views about the solar system's edge, NASA officials said. A more detailed picture of this region is key to our understanding of how fast-moving particles known as cosmic rays are spawned, and how they reach near-Earth space."