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A Dunlap Institute astronomer has discovered that our solar system may be surrounded by what she describes as a magnetic tunnel that can be seen in radio waves. Dr. Jennifer West, Research Associate at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and...

Jennifer West, a researcher at U of T’s Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, says two magnetic structures seen on opposite sides of the sky

Plutonium-244 found in ocean sediment points to a supernova near Earth 2.6 million years ago

An illustration of the heliosphere being pelted with cosmic rays from outside our solar system. Image courtesy of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab. Eleven billion miles away – more than four times the distance from us to Pluto – lies the boundary of our solar system’s magnetic bubble, the heliopause. Here the Sun’s magnetic field, stretching through space like an invisible cobweb, fizzles to nothing. Interstellar space begins. “Its really the largest boundary ...