Structures at the edge of the solar system The shock front, also known as the terminal shock, that surrounds the Sun at an estimated distance of 80 to 100 astronomical units. It marks the transition where the solar wind slows from supersonic to subsonic speed, and where there are large changes ...
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Shock at which the solar wind is thought to slow to subsonic speed, well inside the heleopause.
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Where particles from the Sun begin to slow and clash with matter from the sparse gas found between the stars. At this point the solar wind slows abruptly from a speed in the range 1.1-2.4 million km/h and becomes denser and hotter. Changes in the speed and pressure of the solar wind cause the termination shock to expand, contract and ripple.The loc...
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