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Old 05-10-2021, 09:55 PM   #3614
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I found this interesting though a little older


https://www.intelligentliving.co/amp...d-wall-plasma/


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NASA’s Voyager 2 space probe, launched in 1977, has sent us some fascinating and unexpected data. In 2018 it began passing through the heliopause, a region surrounding our solar system. Here, the probe discovered a wall of interstellar plasma, something like a shield of fire-like gas made of solar-wind.
This sphere of piping hot plasma is low density, so Voyager 2 can pass right through it. However, as far as cosmic radiation is concerned, the wall of interstellar plasma is like a physical barrier, blocking 70% of the radiation from getting into our solar system. As soon as the wall is breached, we step into interstellar space where the level of cosmic radiation spikes. If it weren’t for the heliosphere’s solar-wind shield, all that radiation would strike us here on Earth.
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