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GasLand – Australia | 2011 Oscar Nominee: Best Documentary | A film by Josh Fox |

USA TODAY: Opinion by Josh Fox: “In April 2009, I was standing in Amee Ellsworth’s kitchen in Weld County, Colo., an area that was being
drilled for natural gas.
She was making sandwiches for me and my film crew and explaining how she had been showering in the dark for months, afraid that a spark
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Edge of Solar System Filled with Bubbles, NASA Says

The edge of our solar system is filled with a turbulent sea of magnetic bubbles, according to new NASA research.

Scientists made the discovery by using a new computer model, which is based on data from NASA’s twinVoyager probes. The unmanned Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, which launched in 1977, are plying the outer reaches of our solar system, a region known as the heliosheath.

The new discovery suggests that researchers will need to revise their views about the solar system’s edge, NASA officials said. A more detailed picture of this region is key to our understanding of how fast-moving particles known as cosmic rays are spawned, and how they reach near-Earth space. more