Now, a new study from a team of international researchers has addressed this problem, revealing a framework that explains electron acceleration in outer space ... a bow shock event that occurred ...

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a bow shock around a very young star called LL Ori. Named for the crescent-shaped wave made by a ship as it moves through water, a bow shock can be created ...

Astronomers have found shock waves in outer space near pulsars and magnetars ... The region where this transfer happens is known as the bow shock and its leading area is called the foreshock.