Our solar system is surrounded by a giant invisible bubble called the heliosphere. This protective bubble is created by the solar wind, streams of charged particles flowing out from the Sun, and it ...
At the far edge of the Solar System, where the Sun’s influence thins into the dark between the stars, a pair of aging ...
The solar system floats inside a vast, million-degree hot bubble—an invisible cocoon of thin gas that glows in X-ray light. Known as the Local Hot Bubble (LHB), this low-density cavity stretches more ...
Astronomers traced a mysterious 'scar' of ionized gas around the solar system to two stars that had a close flyby with our sun millions of years ago.