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Less of a “wall (of fire)” and more of a “fine mist (of fire)” – both Voyager craft passed through…

mookybear12404:

shadow-wizard-moneygang:

So Voyager found out there is this bubble surrounding our solar system made up of solar material blown outwards by solar wind and acts as a border between the solar system and the rest of space has a temperature of 30,000-50,000 Kelvin.

For reference the surface of the sun has a temperature of roughly 5770 kelvin

Googled to see if this was true and

Less of a “wall (of fire)” and more of a “fine mist (of fire)” – both Voyager craft passed through unharmed because the superheated particles are so spread out:

While not a hard edge, or a “wall” as it has sometimes been called, here both spacecraft measured temperatures of 30,000-50,000 kelvin (54,000-90,000 degrees Fahrenheit), which is why it is sometimes also referred to as a “wall of fire”.  The craft survived the wall as, though the particles they measured were extremely energetic, the chances of collision in this particle-sparse region of space are so low that not enough heat could be transferred to the duo.

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brucesterling:

*Please transform this 1930s science fiction writer into a cyberpunk science fiction writer of the 1990s.

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