Magnetic Bubbles At The Edge Of The Solar System

Here is a bit more information on how these bubbles were detected:

The Voyager spacecraft have now found that when the separation of sectors becomes very small, the sectored magnetic field breaks up into a sea of nested “magnetic bubbles” in a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection. The region of nested bubbles is carried by the solar wind to the north and south filling out the entire front region of the heliopause and the sector region in the heliosheath.

This discovery has prompted a complete revision of what the heliosheath region looks like. The smooth, streamlined look is gone, replaced with a bubbly, frothy outer layer.

One of the commenters DC has an interesting related question:

Why do the ribbons of magnetic field stack up?  Is there a density change in the plasma that causes them to bounce back like sound waves reaching the edge of a given temperature layer in the ocean?

We hope you enjoy the video and we’re looking forward to finding more about this phenomena.



7 Comments

  1. Joseph Ludvik said:

    Could be tiny high density dust particals from the very core of the big bang . But they would clump and magneticly clump to a formation so thats out . So just cut it short and maybe they just found the first image of dark matter expanding our universe outward near the speed of light . But I would scratch that off the bord as well . To picture an expanding universe imagine a black balloon being expanded to infinite proportion and spinning as fast as a black hole . Anything from a big bang at the center spins outward to the infinite out side increasing in velocity ..that explains why we the universe is speeding up . Im all for the bubble universe theory but I also theorize the universe is an expanding black hole. The magnetic bubbles found really blows my mind they could be what triggered the big bang THEORY ! Cause the theory is now on the chopping block . Now apparently their saying everything has always been here . Wtf

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