News tagged with ibex
Scientists Explore Galactic Frontier, Release First-Ever All-Sky Map (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft has made it possible for scientists to construct the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system and its location in the Milky ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Alien matter in the solar system: A galactic mismatch
This just in: The Solar System is different from the space just outside it.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 13, 2012 |
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Galactic magnetic fields may control the boundaries of our solar system
The first all-sky maps developed by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, the initial mission to examine the global interactions occurring at the edge of the solar system, suggest that the galac ...
Oct 16, 2009 |
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The IBEX Ribbon: Are we in for a new era in the Sun's voyage through the Galaxy?
Is the Sun going to enter soon a million-degree galactic cloud of interstellar gas? Scientists from the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Los Alamos Labs, Southwest Research Institute, ...
May 26, 2010 |
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IBEX mission yields intriguing studies about solar system, lively debate among researchers
Since its October 2008 launch, NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has mapped the invisible interactions occurring at the edge of the solar system, surpassing its mission objectives with ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 16, 2010 |
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Solar Scientists Use 'Magnetic Mirror Effect' to Reproduce IBEX Observation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, mission scientists released the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system's edge in particles, solar physicists have been busy ...
Jan 12, 2010 |
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IBEX collecting science data, building first all-sky map of the edge of the solar system
Following two months of commissioning, during which the spacecraft and sensors were tuned for optimum mission performance, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft began gathering data to build the first maps ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 14, 2009 |
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Novel diamond-like films on board NASA satellite
(PhysOrg.com) -- Diamond-like carbon films created at Sandia National Laboratories are helping probe the far boundaries of the solar system as part of a NASA mission to study how the sun's solar wind interacts ...
Feb 16, 2009 |
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Snow leopard diet determined by DNA analysis of fecal samples
Knowledge about animal diet can inform conservation strategy, but this information can be difficult to gather. A new DNA-based method, which analyzes genetic material from feces, could be a useful tool, and researchers have ...
Feb 29, 2012 |
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New space show highlights IBEX spacecraft's mission of discovery
As part of its education and public outreach efforts, the story of NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission has been chronicled in a space show premiering this month at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. The show ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 05, 2009 |
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