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Thirty years after launch--and earlier than expected--Voyager 2 has found the beginning of the end of the heliosphere, where the sun's solar wind dominates space. Guess what: it's not spherical.

Berkeley -- NASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley, scientists to map for the ...

For the second time in history, a spacecraft still communicating with Earth has reached the solar system’s final frontier, a vast region at the edge of our solar system where the solar wind smashes ...

STEREO detected energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) from the edge of the solar system, where the solar wind meets the interstellar medium. Hot ions in the heliosheath -- the region between the termination ...

The heliosphere, a region dominated by the Sun's influence, extends far beyond the orbits of known planets and acts as a shield against cosmic rays, protecting the inner solar system. Voyager 1 and 2 ...

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Measurements by the SWAN instrument onboard SOHO, have shown that the heliosphere, the solar wind filled volume which prevents the solar system from getting embedded in the local (ambient) ...

Surrounding our solar system is a natural and enigmatic cosmic shield called the heliosphere — and a new mission has launched to help astronomers better understand it. Created by the solar wind, a ...