The solar wind fills space around us to create a giant "bubble" we call the heliosphere. The heliosphere’s size, shape, and dynamics are mostly still unknown.

The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is a small satellite already orbiting Earth. IBEX has special instruments gathering ...

The heliopause, which defines the outer edge of the Sun’s protective bubble known as the heliosphere, is where solar wind slams into material from interstellar space. It’s not a wall in the ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

An international research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon has, for the first time, succeeded in visualizing and ...

The heliosphere is created by the constant flow of particles from the sun known as the solar wind, which separates our solar system from the interstellar medium, the ancient cast-off winds of ...

NASA has already confirmed it: a probe launched into space in 1977 has now discovered a wall of fire at the edge of our Solar System The temperatures reached in that area are extreme ...

Merav Opher, one of the authors of the study and an astronomy professor in BU’s College of Arts and Sciences, and co-author James Drake of UMD propose in the study, published in Astrophysical Journal ...

Essentially, the helicity "barrier" alters turbulent dissipation, changing how fluctuations dissipate and how the plasma is heated. The team has now analyzed data from the Parker Solar Probe, and it ...

Over the centuries, a magnificent monastic complex was built around the Sacred Cave where St. Benedict developed his religious rule.

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