File talk:Voyager 1 entering heliosheath region.jpg

why is this a featured picture? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.129.218.133 (talk • contribs).

See Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Voyager 1 entering heliosheath region — Jack · talk · 17:17, Wednesday, 13 June 2007

It looks so horribly exaggerated in the artistic "freedoms" taken that it may no doubt confuse space science novices. Sure, sometimes things like scales are wrong (and this one is no exception), but here it's introducing some kind of fire when these parts are not visible at all. If an image is intended to illustrate concepts of gravity fields, the heliopause and things like that, I'd much rather prefer something like a more stylized/schematic drawing than this flashy picture. Because then it is at least usually understood nothing of it is invented by the artist, but just visualized for explaining the concepts. — Northgrove 10:45, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree -- while the image is very striking, it suggests some kind of brilliant inferno bearing down on the heliosphere.. Xyad (talk) 08:23, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Quite frankly, it (rather amusingly) reminds me of the fire and dragons found at the edges of maps of "the world" in past centuries. It seems that perhaps we haven't progressed as much as we may think we have. :) --Craig (t|c) 08:36, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Outdated model as of 2009 (See IBEX results). Recommend disuse. Fotaun (talk) 19:24, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]