Between the Great Beyond

Is there really anybody out there? Well, aliens or not, there does exist a purgatory in space.

Is there really anybody out there? Well, aliens or not, there does exist a purgatory in space. After travelling for more than 30 years, and at a distance of 18 billion km from our sun, Nasa spacecraft Voyager 1 has entered an area that lies between our solar system and the interstellar space. In this region, which scientists have dubbed the ‘stagnation region’ or ‘cosmic purgatory’, the solar wind is calmer, the magnetic field of our solar system is much denser and high-energy particles from the system seem to be seeping into interstellar space. “Voyager is showing that what is outside is pushing back. We shouldn’t have long to wait to find out what the space between stars is really like,” Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist at Caltech in California, was quoted as saying in a statement. Here’s wishing whatever or whoever we find in that space holds up a peace sign.

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