{"id":22821,"date":"2016-02-26T20:47:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T04:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/nasas-ibex-observations-pin-down-interstellar-magnetic-field"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:08:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:08:43","slug":"nasas-ibex-observations-pin-down-interstellar-magnetic-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/nasas-ibex-observations-pin-down-interstellar-magnetic-field","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s IBEX Observations Pin Down Interstellar Magnetic Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-ibex-observations-pin-down-interstellar-magnetic-field.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new paper is based on one particular theory of the origin of the IBEX ribbon, in which the particles streaming in from the ribbon are actually solar material reflected back at us after a long journey to the edges of the sun\u2019s magnetic boundaries. (NASA Image) <\/p>\n<p><strong>BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA \u2013 The new paper is based on one particular theory of the origin of the IBEX ribbon, in which the particles streaming in from the ribbon are actually solar material reflected back at us after a long journey to the edges of the sun\u2019s magnetic boundaries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A giant bubble, known as the heliosphere, exists around the sun and is filled with what\u2019s called solar wind, the sun\u2019s constant outflow of ionized gas, known as plasma.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/spacecoastdaily.com\/2016\/02\/nasas-ibex-observations-pin-down-interstellar-magnetic-field\/\">http:\/\/spacecoastdaily.com\/2016\/02\/nasas-ibex-observations-p...tic-field\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new paper is based on one particular theory of the origin of the IBEX ribbon, in which the particles streaming in from the ribbon are actually solar material reflected back at us after a long journey to the edges of the sun\u2019s magnetic boundaries. (NASA Image) BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA \u2013 The new paper is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68228,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22821\/revisions\/68228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}