Voyager 1 detects unpredicted new realm at edge of Solar System: Magnetic Highway, page 3


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reply posted on 4-12-2012 @ 02:28 AM by elouina
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Good one! Yeah and the first thing they want to know is if we paid our intergalactic highway tax. And if that dangerous piece of junk (voyager) is properly insured.
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reply posted on 4-12-2012 @ 03:27 AM by pheonix358
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Then they will inform us quite rudely that not knowing the law is no excuse! LOL

P


reply posted on 4-12-2012 @ 06:03 AM by discolo
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"your vehicle was found abandoned in an un-spaceworthy condition by the edge of the highway and has been impounded for universal safety"

We even put gold licence plates with the address on it to send the fine.
Human race third stone from the (a) sun

voyager.jpl.nasa.gov...


reply posted on 4-12-2012 @ 02:36 PM by theabsolutetruth
Interestingly, there is the theoretical possibility that this unpredicted ''Magnetic Highway'' could be in some way fed or influenced by the gravity columns of a black hole, theorised to span more than the seperation distance between galaxies.

www.eurekalert.org...

So where did all that black-hole energy go? Intense radiation, powerful winds and enigmatic magnetic fields are three of the most important channels for transporting this energy away from the black holes. Some models suggest that the radiation released when black-hole systems formed in the early universe is responsible for re-ionizing the universe after recombination. But to a large extent, radiation has very little dynamic impact once the matter becomes very dilute. Similarly, kinetic winds tend not to propagate very far before losing most of their energy within the galaxy.

But enigmatic magnetic fields are a different story. Working with the University of Toronto, Hui Li of Plasma Physics and Stirling Colgate of the Theoretical Astrophysics group have accounted for a significant fraction of a black hole ’s energy in magnetic fields. The magnetic energy is carried away in the form of neatly lined-up columns of magnetic fields that propagated to a distance slightly larger than the average separation distance between galaxies.The field ’s unique nature of containing a large amount of energy while occupying a limited volume causes magnetic fields to remain dynamically important for a long time, perhaps as long as the age of the universe, according to Li.


More unpredicted Galactic Magnetism

Within a roughly 600-light-year radius from the center of our galaxy, there is a dense region of stars and the molecular gas that feeds the formation of said stars. Prior to star formation, this molecular gas is pulled into vast molecular clouds that are pulled into two elliptical orbits around the black hole that anchors the galaxy at the center by magnetic field lines that exist there. These two massive loops of molecular gas are nested, one inside the other, but they intersect at two points on the galactic disc, and at these intersections both the molecular gas clouds and the magnetic fields collide, changing the behavior of both. For the molecular clouds, research suggest these collisions cause the compression of gas that triggers active star formation. For the magnetic fields, the flux in the magnetic lines causes a strange pillar of magnetism to arise perpendicular to the galactic disc, extending "up" and "down" from the points of intersection (the illustration below, supplied by Keio University, might help you picture this). That would explain why some of the molecular gas in this region might be pulled into a column above and below the neat elliptical orbits of the main molecular clouds. But why the helical structure? It's somewhat mysterious, but the researchers have a guess. They describe this magnetic tube running perpendicular to the galactic disc as being influenced by the frictional contact between the two main clouds (they describe this as similar to twisting a straight string by rolling it between your thumb and forefinger; eventually it takes a helical shape). This twisted magnetic field gives us the strange "pigtail" feature rendered above. It might be dismissed as a phenomena if two other helical structures had not also been identified near the galactic center, suggesting that this strange magnetic behavior isn't isolated or completely anomalous. The researchers aren't quite sure what it means for our understanding of the region near the galactic center, but it should lend some insight into the strange magnetism taking place there.


NASA finding new black hole in Galaxy

Voyager's 2011 Heliosheath unpredicted find that has remodelled the previous standard model (images of old /new)

The case of cosmic rays is illustrative. Galactic cosmic rays are subatomic particles accelerated to near-light speed by distant black holes and supernova explosions. When these microscopic cannonballs try to enter the solar system, they have to fight through the sun's magnetic field to reach the inner planets. "The magnetic bubbles could be our first line of defense against cosmic rays," points out Opher. "We haven't figured out yet if this is a good thing or not." On one hand, the bubbles would seem to be a very porous shield, allowing many cosmic rays through the gaps. On the other hand, cosmic rays could get trapped inside the bubbles, which would make the froth a very good shield indeed. "We'll probably discover which is correct as the Voyagers proceed deeper into the froth and learn more about its organization1," says Opher. "This is just the beginning, and I predict more surprises ahead."
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