Our Home in Space Part 1: The Missing Blueprints

Over 11 billion miles away, an invisible wall separates our “home” in space from the galaxy beyond. 🏠🌌 This wall is the boundary of our heliosphere, the area of space carved out by our Sun. Like a house, the heliosphere shelters us from harsh weather outside and regulates the environment inside. What does our home in space actually look like? We still don’t fully know — but a new NASA mission is aiming to change that. Launching as early as Sept. 23, NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe will help us construct the “blueprints” or our home in space. This short is the first of a three-part series that explores how we learn about our heliosphere, how it protects us, and how it advances the search for life elsewhere in the universe. Music: "Evanescence," "Blossom," Universal Production Music Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Miles Hatfield (eMITS): Producer, Writer, Narrator Ryan Fitzgibbons (eMITS): Producer, Editor Patrick McPike: Animator Jonathan North (eMITS): Animator Krystofer Kim (eMITS): Animator Joy Ng (eMITS): Producer Lacey Young (eMITS): Producer If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · X: http://www.x.com/NASAGoddard · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc