Ghostly Plasma Storms Found in Supposedly Empty Space Around Earth

Scientists using South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope have peered into the interstellar medium like never before, uncovering unexpected turbulence and plasma structures around the nearest millisecond pulsar to Earth. The twinkling of this pulsar revealed solar-system-sized plasma blobs within our so-called “empty” Local Bubble and offered the first detailed 3D view inside a pulsar’s bow shock [...]