Instructional Video5:24
SciShow

We're Heading to the Sun! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
On Aug. 12, 2018 the Parker Solar Probe started its journey to the sun and New Horizons is looking at a mysterious glow at the edge of the solar system.
Instructional Video5:35
SciShow

Voyager 2’s Notes from Interstellar Space | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Voyager 2 is the second object to leave our solar system, which means we now have twice as much information about its edges! And scientists have found a record-breaking black hole.
Instructional Video4:55
SciShow

What's It Like at the Edge of the Solar System

12th - Higher Ed
Where does our solar system end, and interstellar space begin, and what is it like there? Satellites and probes like IBEX and Voyager 1 & 2 help us get a better look at our special corner of the galaxy.
Instructional Video11:46
Astrum

Going Beyond the Edge of Our Solar System

Higher Ed
The journey of Voyager I and II beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Instructional Video0:44
Curated Video

Solar wind

6th - 12th
A stream of charged particles, mainly electrons and protons, emitted from the Sun's outer atmosphere at up to 900 kilometres per second. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images...
Instructional Video1:41
Next Animation Studio

Voyager missions detect increase in density of space outside the solar system

12th - Higher Ed
The Voyager spacecraft have found that space is more dense outside the Solar System, according to research published in the journal Astrophysical Letters.
Instructional Video1:00
Next Animation Studio

Voyagers’ readings yield new clues about the solar system’s structure

12th - Higher Ed
Voyager 2 registered a sharper difference in magnetic particles and plasma density than expected upon crossing the heliopause. <br/>
Instructional Video3:02
NASA

NASA | IBEX Spacecraft Observes Matter from Interstellar Space

3rd - 11th
A great magnetic bubble surrounds the solar system as it cruises through the galaxy. The sun pumps the inside of the bubble full of solar particles that stream out to the edge until they collide with the material that fills the...
Instructional Video3:11
NASA

NASA | IBEX | What are the Boundaries of our Solar System?

3rd - 11th
IBEX is a new NASA mission that will study the interaction between the solar wind and the material beyond our Solar System called the interstellar medium. The solar wind flowing out of the sun inflates a bubble that we call the...
Instructional Video4:17
NASA

11 Years Charting Edge of Solar System

3rd - 11th
Far, far beyond the orbits of the planets lie the hazy outlines of the magnetic bubble in space that we call home.



This is the heliosphere, the vast bubble that is generated by the Sun’s magnetic field and...
Instructional Video0:47
Next Animation Studio

Voyager 2 detects high temperatures and gaps in the heliopause sphere: NASA

12th - Higher Ed
NASA’s Voyager 2 reached the edge of the solar system in early November. <br/>
Stock Footage1:23
Getty Images

Animation, starting with our Sun; zoom out through the solar system to reveal the Heliosphere and the Heliopause where Voyager I passed through in November 2003. Credit NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Animation, starting with our Sun; zoom out through the solar system to reveal the Heliosphere and the Heliopause where Voyager I passed through in November 2003. Credit NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
Stock Footage1:06
Getty Images

Journey to the Heliosphere

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Journey to the Heliosphere
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Scale of Distance to Closest Stars

9th - 10th
A scale of the Earth, the Sun, the Galaxy and universe. Also included is a scale of Earth to the closest stars. [8:18]