Heliosphere
The heliosphere is a bubble in space produced by the solar wind. Although electrically neutral atoms from interstellar space can penetrate this bubble, virtually all of the material in the heliosphere emanates from the Sun itself.
Heliosphere
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The Heliosphere (from the Greek word "helios" meaning sun) is a huge magnetic bubble created by the solar wind emanating from our Sun, consisting almost entirely of charged material (electrons and ions) ejected from the Sun's surface.
Definition: heliosphere: The space within the boundary of the heliopause containing the Sun and solar system.
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a vast region around the sun dominated by the solar wind
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Heliosphere. The Sun emits a steady flow of electrically-charged particles called the solar wind. As the solar wind expands supersonically into space, it creates a magnetized bubble around the Sun -- the heliosphere.
Heliosphere. The region in space that extends to the heliopause. The heliosphere is the cavity around the Sun in the local interstellar medium that is produced by the solar wind.
HELIOSPHERE - Region of space containing plasma and magnetic fields of solar origin; a cavity carved in the interstellar medium by the flow of the solar wind.
Heliosphere- the space within the boundary of the heliopause containing the Sun and solar system ...
Heliosphere - The region of space dominated by the solar wind and the Sun's magnetic field ...
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The heliosphere is an area centered around the Sun over which the effect of the solar wind extends. The heliosphere extends beyond the orbit of Pluto.
Heliosphere
The area in space that contains our solar system, solar wind, and the entire solar magnetic field. It extends well beyond the orbit of Pluto, out to the heliopause.
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The heliosphere is a magnetic bubble that partially protects the Solar System from cosmic rays. Image: Richard Mewaldt/Caltech.
The heliosphere is an area centered around the over which the effect of the extends. The heliosphere extends beyond the orbit of .
The Heliosphere extends out from the Sun to a distance of about 15 billion miles, which is more than 160 times further from the Sun than is the Earth.
heliosphere (NASA Thesaurus) The region around the sun whose plasma processes are dominated by solar wind. heliostats (NASA Thesaurus) Instruments consisting of mirrors moved by clockwork for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
The solar system consists of an average star we call the Sun, its "bubble" the heliosphere, the classical planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn which were known to the ancients, and Uranus and Neptune, ...
As the solar wind moves out into space, it creates a magnetized bubble of hot plasma around the Sun, called the heliosphere. Eventually, the expanding solar wind encounters the charged particles and magnetic field in the interstellar gas.
The Sun radiates a continuous stream of charged particles, a plasma known as solar wind, which forms a very tenuous "atmosphere" (the heliosphere), permeating the interplanetary medium in all directions into space.
Image credit: European Space Agency By the time Ulysses had completed its first orbit in 1998, our knowledge of the heliosphere (the huge bubble which marks the extent of the solar wind) had taken a dramatic step forward.
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19H. History: 1930--the magnetic storm theory of Chapman and Ferraro.
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23. The Tail of the Magnetosphere
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Anomalous cosmic rays have energies of ~107 to 108 eV and are thought to originate from neutral interstellar atoms that have been ionised by solar UV radiation after entering the heliosphere.
(The heliosphere is the HUGE area in space affected by the Sun.) It also includes some astrophysics basics, a glossary, a history of cosmic ray studies, and the chance to "Ask a Physicist." High school level or above.
Voyager has found that the magnetic bubble, known as the heliosphere, is squeezed inward toward the Sun more on the southern side than the northern side.
The heliopause is the outermost boundary of the solar wind, where the interstellar medium restricts the outward flow of the solar wind and confines it within a magnetic bubble called the heliosphere.
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