Frabjous Times

space scifaiku poetry

Crossing Oceanus

at the edge of the
ink-black reef
no land in sight
“Astronomers tracking the little spaceship's 26-year journey from Earth believe Voyager has gone through a region known as termination shock, some 8.7 billion miles from the Sun, and entered an area called the heliosheath.
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This region is where the charged solar particles known as the solar wind apparently slow down from a top speed of 1.5 million mph and bump up against gas from the space beyond our solar system.”
Originally published: 2005/05/25 22:18:36