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Solar System is squashed


Date: 10-Dec-07
Author: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has followed its twin, Voyager 1, into the solar system's final frontier, a vast region at the edge of our solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin gas between the stars.

However, Voyager 2 took a different path, entering this region, called the heliosheath ... closer to the sun, it confirmed that our solar system is "squashed" or "dented" -- that the bubble carved into interstellar space by the solar wind is not perfectly round. Where Voyager 2 made its crossing, the bubble is pushed in closer to the sun by the local interstellar magnetic field.


Solar System is squashed !  Courtesy: NASA JPL
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