Title | Voyager 1 Rides 'Tsunami Wave' in Interstellar Space | |
Date | Thursday December 18 2014, @05:23AM | |
Author | LaminatorX | |
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from the Magic-carpet-ride dept. |
Space.com - Voyager 1 Rides 'Tsunami Wave' in Interstellar Space
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft — the only object made by humans to reach interstellar space — might still be caught what scientists have described as a cosmic "tsunami wave," a shock wave that first hit the probe in February, according to new research. You can hear the eerie interstellar vibrations in a video, courtesy of NASA.
"Most people would have thought the interstellar medium would have been smooth and quiet," study researcher Don Gurnett, professor of physics at the University of Iowa, and the principal investigator of Voyager 1's plasma wave instrument, said in a statement from NASA. "But these shock waves seem to be more common than we thought."
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