NASA-International Space Station

Using data from Voyager, they have discovered a strong magnetic field just outside the solar system. This magnetic field holds the interstellar cloud together ”The Fluff” and solves the long standing puzzle of how it can exist at all.

The Fluff is much more strongly magnetized than anyone had formerly suspected. This magnetic field can provide the extra pressure required to oppose destruction.

The Voyagers are not really inside the Local Fluff. But they are getting close and can sense what the cloud is like as they approach it.

At least, that’s what NASA’s Heliophysics Guest Investigator from George Mason University Merav Opher says in the issue of Nature. I lean to the intergalactic plot to keep our primitive world from entering the Federation of Advanced Civilizations. That, or Ming of Mongo trying to crush our puny arses.

It’s ironic how the whole thing works. Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere protects us from the Sun’s magnetic field and radiation. Then, the Fluff is not destroying us thanks to the Sun’s magnetic field and the solar winds, which is what form the 10 billion kilometer wide heliosphere.