The heliosphere is so large that objects in the Kuiper Belt orbit closer to the Sun than to the closest boundary of the heliosphere. Credit: JHU/APL Heliosphere protection.

Interstellar space is not empty but filled with gas, dust and energetic particles. We explore this cosmic medium in more detail here.

New data from NASA’s Cassini, Voyager and Interstellar Boundary Explorer missions show that the heliosphere — the bubble of the sun’s magnetic influence that surrounds the inner solar system ...

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Heliosphere protection. As distant stars explode, they expel large amounts of radiation into interstellar space in the form of highly energized particles known as cosmic rays.These cosmic rays can ...

Heliosphere protection. As distant stars explode, they expel large amounts of radiation into interstellar space in the form of highly energized particles known as cosmic rays.These cosmic rays can ...

As distant stars explode, they expel large amounts of radiation into interstellar space in the form of highly energized particles known as cosmic rays.These cosmic rays can be dangerous for living ...

Michigan, The Sun warms the Earth, making it habitable for people and animals. But that’s not all it does, and it affects a much larger area of space. The heliosphere, the area of space ...

As one of the five panels that will provide input to the steering committee of the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033; the Panel on the Physics of the Sun and ...

We live in a bubble—literally. It’s called the heliosphere, and it’s made of tenuous plasma billowing from the sun. This ionized gas flows outward along magnetic field lines emerging from ...