Posted: 16 Dec 2016 03:33 PM PST
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Artist's rendering depicts
the Voyager 2 spacecraft as it studies the outer limits of the heliosphere -
a magnetic 'bubble' around the Solar System that is created by the solar
wind. Scientists observed the magnetic bubble is not spherical, but pressed
inward in the southern hemisphere.Credit: NASA/JPL
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(Space) Our solar system is passing through a cloud of interstellar material that shouldn't be there, astronomers say. And now the decades-old Voyager spacecraft have helped solved the mystery.
