Voyager 2 Approaches Termination Shock

Astronomers like to make cool names for boundaries in outer space. If you cross the point of no return near a blackhole, it’s called the event horizon. However, when you leave the heliosphere of our Sun, it’s called the termination shock.

The heliosphere is a sphere surrounding the solar system in which the solar wind, electronically [...]

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Geminid Meteor Shower

The Geminid meteor shower is set to peak on Friday, December 14th. The Geminid meteor shower occurs when the Earth passes through a debris cloud left by near-earth object (NEO) 3200 Phaethon, which, interestingly is not a comet, but an asteroid, some theorists think.

Asteroids don’t normally spew debris into space. The tail of a comet [...]