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Is our solar system shaped like a deflated croissant? – techtoday19
Home News Science & Astronomy An updated model suggests the shape of the sun’s bubble of influence, the heliosphere (seen in yellow), may be a deflated croissant shape, rather than the long-tailed comet shape suggested by other research. (Image: © Opher, et a…
Our solar system’s protective bubble may not be comet-shaped after all.
Scientists have traditionally posited that the heliosphere
, the huge bubble of charged particles that the sun blows around itself, has a rounded leading edge, where the solar system barrels through space, with a long tail streaming behind it. But the heliosphere’s true shape is weirder and more complex, a recent study suggests something akin to a deflated croissant.
It’s tough to map out the heliosphere, because its clo…
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