NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, recently mapped the boundaries of the solar system’s tail, called the heliotail. By combining observations from the first three years of IBEX imagery, scientists have mapped out a tail that shows a combination of fast and slow moving particles. The entire structure twisted, because it experiences the pushing and pulling of magnetic fields outside the solar system.
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GSFC_20130710_IBEX_m11306_Heliotail
Date Created
July 10, 2013
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GSFC
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Goddard Space Flight Center
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