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NASA's IBEX Provides First View of Our Place in the Galaxy Posted by Guy Pirro on 10/17/2009 5:20 PM NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made it possible for scientists to construct the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system and its location in the Milky Way galaxy. The new view will change the way researchers view and study the interaction between our galaxy and sun. The sky map was produced with data that IBEX collected during six months of observations. The detectors measured and counted particles scientists refer to as energetic neutral atoms that travel inward toward the sun from interstellar space at velocities ranging from 100,000 mph to more than 2.4 million mph. | Read full story |

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