Posted on December 6, 2007 by laxrick
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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Posted on December 6, 2007 by laxrick
Posted on December 6, 2007 by laxrick
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 [...]
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