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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The outer boundary of the heliosphere.
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- noun astronomy The boundary of
heliosphere where theSun 'ssolar wind is stopped by the interstellar medium.
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- noun the boundary marking the edge of the sun's influence; the boundary (roughly 100 AU from the sun) between the interplanetary medium and the interstellar medium; where the solar wind from the sun and the radiation from other stars meet
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Examples
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This border, called the heliopause, is a bubble-shaped boundary surrounding our solar system where the solar wind’s strength is no longer great enough to push back the wind of other stars.
Sun’s Unusual State Could Reduce Natural Shielding Of Solar System | Disinformation 2008
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The boundary where the pressure from the solar wind and the interstellar medium are at the same pressure, 16 billion kilometres from Earth, forms a giant bubble called the heliopause, and it's nothing like what scientists predicted it to be.
October 24th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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It slows as it begins to collide with the interstellar medium, and the point where the solar wind slows down is the termination shock; the point where the interstellar medium and solar wind pressures balance is called the heliopause; the point where the interstellar medium, traveling in the opposite direction, slows down as it collides with the heliosphere is the bow shock.
Spacecraft Detects Mysterious "Ribbon" at Edge of Solar System | Universe Today 2009
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It involves the magnetohydrodynamics of the interstellar medium and the region of the heliopause, which is much smaller.
Spacecraft Detects Mysterious "Ribbon" at Edge of Solar System | Universe Today 2009
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The finding would also suggest that IBEX is detecting the particles from both inside and outside the heliopause, which is the boundary region between the outer solar system and the local interstellar medium.
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The finding would also suggest that IBEX is detecting the particles from both inside and outside the heliopause, which is the boundary region between the outer solar system and the local interstellar medium.
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The finding would also suggest that IBEX is detecting the particles from both inside and outside the heliopause, which is the boundary region between the outer solar system and the local interstellar medium.
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This border, called the heliopause, is where the solar wind's strength is no longer great enough to push back the wind originating from other stars.
Scientific Blogging News Account 2008
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This border, called the heliopause, is a bubble-shaped boundary surrounding our Solar System where the solar wind's strength is no longer great enough to push back the wind originating from other stars.
Scientific Blogging News Account 2008
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This border, called the heliopause, surrounds our solar system where the solar wind's strength is no longer great enough to push back the wind of other stars.
YubaNet.com 2008
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This bubble ends at a boundary called the heliopause, where the sun's magnetic field peters out and solar winds give way to interstellar space.
Voyager 2 Bids Adieu To The Heliosphere, Entering Interstellar Space Colin Dwyer 2018
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