2/01/2012

Matter from outside solar system detected


NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has spotted material from outside our solar system.Researchers announced that this material came from elsewhere in the galaxy.

IBEX a spacecraft that is studying the edge of the solar system from its orbit about 200,000 miles above Earth.

Today in a news briefing at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C, the principal investigator David McComas said:
"This alien interstellar material is really the stuff that stars and planets and people are made of — it's really important to be measuring it"

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