Astronomers Discover Space Is Fizzing

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I found a very interesting article today on one of the sites I visit daily. Although I am an Autocad Technician/Trainee Engineer and can't really comment on the scientific aspect of such an article, I did think that it may be of interest to some people here. Especially with the talk of large super-heated density bubbles interacting with the earth's magnetic field.

Here is the link with the article part below.
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Astronomers_Discover_Space_Is_Fizzing.html

Space is fizzing. In a place where Earth's magnetic field meets the constant stream of gas from the Sun, astronomers have found thousands of bubbles of superheated gas constantly growing and popping. The discovery could allow scientists finally to understand the interaction between the solar wind and the Earth's magnetic field.
This new view of near-Earth space has been made possible by ESA's four-spacecraft flotilla, called Cluster, and Double Star, ESA's collaborative space mission with China. The spacecraft encounter the bubbles every time they reach Earth's day-lit side, at altitudes of between 13 and 19 Earth radii.

The bubbles, known as density holes, are regions of space where the density of gas suddenly falls by 10 times, but the temperature of the remaining gas leaps from 100,000 degrees Celsius to 10-million degrees C.

I hope you enjoy the read as much as I did.