Scientists discover that the solar system has moved into an area op space that have never seen before
The solar system is travelling through much stormier skies than we thought. Scientists have come to the conclusion that we have moved into an area of space that is different and has much higher energy level. They are reporting changes that are being recorded in space that have never seen before.
That's the implication of a multi-decade survey of the interstellar wind buffeting the solar system which has revealed an unexpected change in the wind's direction. The fact that the wind is shifting over the span of mere decades, means that the interior of the cloud is either unusually turbulent or the solar system is a mere 1000 or so years away from punching its way out.
Recent results obtained by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission, suggest that neutral interstellar atoms flow into the solar system from different direction than found previously.
These prior measurements represent data collected from Olysses and other spacecraft during 1992-2002, and a variety of older measurements acquired during 1972-1978. Consideration of all data types and their published results and uncertainties, over the three epochs of observations, indicates that the trend for the interstellar flow ecliptic longitude to increase linearly with time is statistically significant.
Recently NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft beamed back unprecedented data from interstellar space. The data suggests the presence of previously unknown boundary layers beyond the edge of our solar system. Just beyond the solar system's edge, these solar winds interact with interstellar winds: gas, dust, and charged particles flowing through space from supernova explosions millions of years ago.
The scientists found that beyond the mysterious, newly identified layer, there is another, much thicker boundary layer where interstellar plasma flows over the heliopause. There, the density of the plasma jumps up by a factor of 20 or more for a region spanning billions of miles. This suggests that something is compressing the plasma outside the heliosphere, but scientists don't know what.
Watch video of the solar system is travelling through a potentially dangerous interstellar storm at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WF5chCrFlI