NASA’s Next Mission Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Our Solar System’s Edge
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
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Scientists call the region of space influenced by the Sun the heliosphere – but without an interstellar probe, they don’t know much about its shape
The nose direction should have the shortest distance to the heliopause – the boundary between the heliosphere and the local interstellar medium. No probe has ever gotten a good look at the ...
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Scientists Figured Out How to Probe the Boundary of the Solar System
Chief among those mysteries is the exact boundary of the heliosphere and local interstellar space, known as the heliopause. While NASA has successfully sent two probes (Voyager 1 and 2 ...
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News on heliosphere
But that's not all it does, and it affects a much larger area of space. The heliosphere, the area of space influenced by the sun, is over a hundred times ...