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What did Voyager 1 just find? A wall of fiery plasma outside the heliosphere. get outside that, and everything is hotter! The idea that space is cold is a fallacy.


Op-Ed: Great science incoming as Voyagers find ‘Wall of Fire’
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By Paul Wallis Nov 11, 2019 in Science

Cape Canaveral - The Voyager probes have left the best to last. They have just delivered the most important information ever regarding the realities of interstellar space. This is Big Science which will be critical for millennia to come.

The Wall of Fire outside the Solar System is caused by electromagnetic (EM) radiation which is created by plasma and a local space environment full of raging magnetic fields.