The heliosphere is the magnetosphere, astrosphere, and outermost atmospheric layer of the Sun. It takes the shape of a vast, tailed bubble-like region...
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Shensuo (spacecraft) (redirect from Interstellar Heliosphere Probe)
Chinese National Space Administration program designed to explore the heliosphere and interstellar space. The program will feature two or three space probes...
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Solar System (section Edge of the heliosphere)
flooded by the Sun's charged particles, the solar wind, forming the heliosphere. Around 75–90 astronomical units from the Sun, the solar wind is halted...
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mission, which will help researchers better understand the boundary of the heliosphere, a magnetic barrier surrounding our solar system. The total launch cost...
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photosphere, the chromosphere, the transition region, the corona, and the heliosphere. The coolest layer of the Sun is a temperature minimum region extending...
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000 mph) or 0.073% of the speed of light. The Sun moves through the heliosphere at 84,000 km/h (52,000 mph). At this speed, it takes around 1,400 years...
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the second-largest contiguous structure in the Solar System (after the heliosphere). Jupiter forms a system of 95 known moons and probably many more, including...
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Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) is a future mission by NASA to study the unexplored region from the middle of the solar corona...
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the scattered disc) and the farthest regions (e.g., boundaries of the heliosphere, and the Oort Cloud, which may extend as far as a light-year). The inner...
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Heliophysics (section Heliosphere)
other planets. Heliophysics combines the science of the Sun, corona, heliosphere and geospace, and encompasses a wide variety of astronomical phenomena...
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is part of the Very Local Interstellar Medium which begins where the heliosphere and interplanetary medium end, the furthest that probes have traveled...
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Voyager 1 (section Exit from the heliosphere)
study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. It was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2. It communicates through...
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emanating from the Sun which creates a very tenuous atmosphere (the heliosphere) for billions of kilometers into space. This wind has a particle density...
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wind Magnetic cloud Coronal mass ejection Solar flare Geomagnetic storm Heliosphere Interplanetary magnetic field Heliospheric current sheet Heliopause Solar...
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Mars, and Saturn, including active artificial satellites and space junk Heliosphere, a bubble in space produced by the solar wind Heliosheath Heliopause...
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from "helios", including the rare adjective heliac (meaning "solar"), heliosphere, perihelion and aphelion among others. The chemical element Helium, a...
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(yellow spherical shell with yellow Vernal point arrow as radius); the heliosphere's termination shock (blue shell); and other arrows show positions of Voyager...
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in the 2020s and take differing paths to explore opposing ends of the heliosphere; the second probe, IHP-2, would fly by Neptune in January 2038, passing...
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(August 22, 2000). "An interstellar probe mission to the boundaries of the heliosphere and nearby interstellar space". Space 2000 Conference and Exposition...
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objects Solar System Terrestrial planet Giant planet Gas giant Ice giant Heliosphere Oort cloud Hills Cloud Meteoroid Micrometeoroid Meteor Bolide Moons Moonlets...
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v t e Solar System Sun Heliosphere Lists Solar System objects by orbit By size By discovery date Geological features Craters Minor planets Gravitationally...
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wind, "but everyone agrees that it means the textbook picture of the heliosphere—in which the Solar System's enveloping pocket filled with the solar wind's...
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out by measurements of positron and electron fluxes outside the Sun's heliosphere by the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Tiny black holes are theorized to emit Hawking...
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enclosing the entire Solar System. Both regions lie well beyond the heliosphere and are in interstellar space. The innermost portion of the Oort cloud...
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Earth and the nearest planets, as well as in the boundary regions of the heliosphere. JPL · 6315 6316 Méndez 1990 TL6 Mariano Méndez (born 1960) has had a...
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although the bulk are deflected off into space by the magnetosphere or the heliosphere. Cosmic rays were discovered by Victor Hess in 1912 in balloon experiments...
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invisible phenomena in the magnetospheres of planets and throughout the heliosphere. Charged particles— protons, electrons, and various nuclei— emitted from...
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only moving sideways so that it can end up going down the tail of the heliosphere, which is a comet-shaped-like object", said Voyager project scientist...
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v t e Solar System Sun Heliosphere Lists Solar System objects by orbit By size By discovery date Geological features Craters Minor planets Gravitationally...
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