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Heliosphere’s orientation in the Milky Way galaxy. The light blue olive-shape marks the termination shock, where solar wind slows from supersonic to subsonic speeds. The lavender area is the heliosphere’s bow shock, formed as the sun moves supersonically through the surrounding interstellar cloud. In between those two regions is the heliopause. (Credit: Priscilla Frisch, Andrew Hanson, Philip Chi-Wing Fu)
U. CHICAGO (US)—Scientists have published the first comprehensive sky maps revealing a surprising ribbon of energetic neutral atoms at the outer edge of the solar wind bubble surrounding the solar system. Continue…
