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NASA's Voyager Found a 30k-50k Kelvin "Wall" at the Edge of Solar System

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246 points world2vec | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 16:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.364s | source
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TheBigSalad ◴[23 Jun 25 18:36 UTC] No.44358683[source]▶
Can someone explain to me why this isn't melting Voyager?
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1. mystified5016 ◴[23 Jun 25 18:45 UTC] No.44358770[source]▶
Because very few hot particles ever touched the craft. The gas is so incredibly thin that Voyager largely sailed straight through the space in between molecules.