Now maybe it sounds too extreme to do a business up there but this is something that you should not miss. Japan’s £1billion space lab named The Kibo module is now open for business after astronauts completed a six-hour spacewalk!

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station floated into the lab module after power was activated, kick-starting Japan’s permanent place in space. Kibo meaning Hope was delivered by the shuttle Discovery, which blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Saturday for a two-week mission that includes a plumbing call to fix the sole toilet aboard the orbital outpost.
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Seems like something wrong with our solar system. I just read an article from Scientificblogging and it really shows that our solar system is not like what we are thinking before.

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has entered a vast region at the edge of our solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin gas between the stars, called the heliosheath, and what it found is surprising - our solar system is ‘dented.’

Voyager 2 entered the heliosheath on August 30, 2007, crossing the heliosheath boundary, called the solar wind termination shock, about 10 billion miles away from Voyager 1 and almost a billion miles closer to the sun, and confirmed that our solar system is “squashed” – that the bubble carved into interstellar space by the solar wind is not perfectly round. Where Voyager 2 made its crossing, the bubble is pushed in closer to the sun by the local interstellar magnetic field.

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