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Description: Artist's interpretation depicting the new view [in light of data from the Voyager spacecraft as they passed the heliopause] of the heliosphere. The heliosheath is filled with “magnetic bubbles” (shown in the red pattern) that fill out the region behind the heliopause. In this new view, the heliopause is not a continuous shield that separates the solar domain from the interstellar medium, but a porous membrane with fingers and indentations.
Title: NewHeliopause 558121
Credit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/multimedia/20110609_briefing_materials.html
Author: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab
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