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The bubble of space encasing the Solar System might be wrinkled, at least sometimes.

On today's date, August 25, 1989, Voyager 2 flew over the north pole of Neptune. Making its closest approach to a planet in its outer solar system Grand Tour.

What is the heliopause, and why does it give our solar system a tail like a four-leaf-clover stretching for tens of billions of miles into outer space?

A unique mission concept known as Interstellar Probe would venture beyond the solar system and probe our neighborhood environment.

Voyager 2 reached interstellar shores, over 11 billion miles away, to begin a new phase of its mission between the stars. Read more at HowStuffWorks.

Según lo explica Slash Gear la heliosfera se genera gracias a los vientos solares de nuestra estrella masiva. Dicho elemento se empuja hacia los bordes de nuestro sistema y choca con los vientos de la radiación externa. Entonces, así se genera esa burbuja protectora. Esta es una de las principales teorías que destaca la esencia fundamental del Sol, para preservar la vida de un sistema de planetas que giran en su órbita. Detalla el portal citado que gracias a esta investigación y datos de...

April 27, 2021 Jessica Sutter, a UW Ph.D. student in physics, poses in front of the nearby galaxies she studies. Sutter will present a talk, titled “Star Formation in Local Galaxies,” Friday, May 14, at 7 p.m. in the UW Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium. (Jessica Sutter Photo) Activities at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium may start slowly during May, but they will soon pick up speed like a hurtling comet. Scheduled highlights include a talk by Jessica Sutter, a UW Ph.D. st...