{"id":3962,"date":"2023-03-09T08:36:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T03:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2025-03-26T20:48:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:18:25","slug":"interstellar-boundary-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/interstellar-boundary-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Interstellar Boundary Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Interstellar Boundary Explorer:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>NASA&#8217;s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) was launched in October 2008 to <strong>study the outer edge of the heliosphere.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The spacecraft is designed to map the boundary where winds from the Sun interact with winds from other stars.<\/li>\n<li>The solar system&#8217;s boundary is studied by observing <strong>energetic neutral atoms or ENAs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>ENAs are high-energy particles produced at the very edge of our solar system.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major discoveries of IBEX<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>This spacecraft fully <strong>mapped the heliosphere<\/strong> within a year after its launch.<\/li>\n<li>Its most famous discovery is uncovering a dense region of particles, <strong>the \u2018IBEX ribbon<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What is\u00a0 Heliosphere?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Heliosphere is the region where the <strong>constant flow of particles from our Sun<\/strong>, called the solar wind, <strong>collides with material from the rest of the galaxy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) Who is a Galaxy ?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Galaxies are sprawling systems of dust, gas, dark matter, and anywhere from a million to a trillion stars that are held together by gravity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/nasa-ibex-spacecraft-glitch-8483769\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>NASA\u2019s IBEX spacecraft back to studying edge of solar system after glitch<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Interstellar Boundary Explorer was launched in October 2008 to study the outer edge of the heliosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}