Fasten your cosmic seatbelts: Interstellar wind changes direction, blows faster

[GhostG45]

[img]http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/interstellar_wind2.jpg[/img]

[quote]Interstellar space—the region between stars in our galaxy—is fairly empty. There are still enough atoms in that space to produce a measurable effect as the Sun orbits the galactic center, however. The flow of these atoms, known as the interstellar wind, provides a way to study interstellar gas, which moves independently of the Sun's motion.[/quote]

[quote]Priscilla Frisch and colleagues compared the results from several spacecraft, both in Earth orbit and interplanetary probes. The different positions and times in which these instruments operated revealed that the interstellar wind has increased slightly in speed. Additional measurements revealed that the flow of atoms has shifted somewhere between 4.4 degrees and 9.2 degrees. [b]Both these results indicate that the Sun is traveling through a changing environment, perhaps one shaped by turbulence in interstellar space.[/b][/quote]

[url]http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/09/turbulence-ahead-interstellar-wind-changes-direction-blows-faster/[/url]

[Awesomecaek]

It better not start raining

[GhostG45]

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;42097358]It better not start raining[/QUOTE]

It's the hail we have to watch out for. :tinfoil: