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27 July 2008
IBEX Mission Will View the Final Frontier of the Solar System

Space is far from empty. The Solar System can be viewed as a "bubble" of solar matter - filled with particles emitted by the Sun as the solar wind - extending well beyond the orbit of Pluto. The solar wind velocity is supersonic for most of this distance (exceeding a million miles per hour), but [...]

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21 January 2008
Forget Black Holes, How Do You Find A Wormhole?

Finding a black hole is an easy task… compared with searching for a wormhole. Suspected black holes have a massive gravitational effect on planets, stars and even galaxies, generating radiation, producing jets and accretion disks. Black holes will even bend light through gravitational lensing. Now, try finding a wormhole… Any ideas? Well, a Russian researcher thinks he has [...]

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