New findings from far edge of solar system

From USC

After more than three decades of dreaming, imagining and researching what might be out at the solar system's edge, a Trojan scientist has not only begun to see but also to map phenomena that not only once were thought to be impossible to realize but also that represents what some are terming a frontier in humanity's understanding of its place in the galaxy. This culmination of years of work can be traced to  NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft program, which, after a launch months ago, has begun to send back data from deep space about the telling activity of certain atomic particles. Science magazine, in an issue with some results from this work highlighted on its cover, reports that the data show a "narrow ribbon of bright details or emissions" unfamiliar under existing theoretical models for what should be there.

Pioneering Trojan expert seeing decades of theory tested by space sensors