As NASA’s Voyager 1 Surveys Interstellar Space, Its Density Measurements Are Making Waves 11.5.2021 VIDEO: NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft captured these sounds of interstellar space. Voyager 1’s plasma wave instrument detected the vibrations of dense interstellar plasma, or ionized gas, from October to November 2012 and April to May 2013. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech • In the sparse collection of atoms that fills interstellar space, Voyager 1 has measured a long-lasting series of waves where it previou

This new NASA mission will get a whole new look at our home in space. 👀 The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will chart our heliosphere, the giant bubble encasing our solar system. The heliosphere is like Earth’s house in space: It shelters our planet from interstellar radiation and helps keep it cozy, safe, and suitable for living things — like us! 🌱🌎 With a comprehensive suite of 10 instruments, IMAP will reveal our heliosphere with 30X better resolution than we’ve ever

📣 LAUNCH ALERT! 📣 On Sept. 23, three new heliophysics missions are taking to the skies! IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) will map our heliosphere, the vast bubble that surrounds our solar system, to help us understand how our Sun creates and influences the vast space environment we live inside. 🚀🫧 The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory will image the "halo" emitted by the outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere, the exosphere. Named for Dr. George Carruthers — who invented the