The heliosphere is tilted and the bow shock really exists (annotated version)

This artist's impression depicts the local region of space around the Solar System reflecting new discoveries by European scientists using observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and Voyager.

Credit:

ESA & Lotfi Ben Jaffel (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (CNRS-INSU)), Martin Kornmesser and Lars Lindberg Christensen (Space Telescope-European Coordination Facility).

About the Image

Id:heic9911b
Type:Artwork
Release date:13 March 2000, 15:00
Related releases:heic9911
Size:3000 x 1965 px

About the Object

Name:Heliosphere
Type:Solar System
Category:Solar System

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