How to Use heliosphere in a Sentence

heliosphere

noun

• This is where the Voyagers are, beyond the heliosphere.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2020
• The outermost layer of the heliosphere is known as the heliopause.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Oct. 2018
• The Sun’s solar wind makes up the heliosphere, which surrounds us and all of the planets in our solar system.
  — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2018
• Solving these puzzles will require a better view of the heliosphere as a whole.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2019
• The interstellar medium — the wisps of atoms and molecules that flow between the stars — is pushed away by the heliosphere.
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2021
• The blowing of the solar wind creates an enormous magnetic bubble around the Sun, known as the heliosphere.
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2021
• Based on Voyager 2's crossing, the astronomers learned that the heliosphere has a smooth but defined boundary between the two types of plasma.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 Nov. 2019
• The heliosphere’s outermost edge, called the heliopause, marks the start of interstellar space.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2019
• To some scientists, those readings meant Voyager 1 had left the heliosphere.
  — Sarah Fecht, Popular Mechanics, 12 Sep. 2013
• The probe is particularly well suited to study how the Sun generates its heliosphere and the solar wind.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2020
• Kurth once published a commentary in a science journal that said leaving the heliosphere was more or less the same as leaving the solar system.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2020
• But though scientists had measured the speed of the solar wind that forms the heliosphere, the properties of the matter beyond it had never been analyzed.
  — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2017
• But that wasn’t enough to prove that Voyager 1 had sailed through the heliosphere; knowing for sure required determining the density of plasma bathing the spacecraft.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2013
• In 2018, the spacecraft left the heliosphere, which is the outer layer of particles and magnetic field created by the sun, according to NASA.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
• And the sun’s region of influence—its heliosphere—could radically change in size.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2022
• Its main goal is to answer the question: How does the sun create and control the heliosphere — the huge protective bubble that surrounds our solar system — and why does that bubble change over time?
  — Amy Thompson, Scientific American, 10 Feb. 2020
• Moving at hypersonic speeds, the wind blows out from the sun like an inflating balloon, forming what astronomers call the heliosphere.
  — Tim Folger, Scientific American, 18 June 2022
• Thinking of the heliosphere like a wind sock, astronomers would want a probe that could essentially travel down the tail created by the sun's wind, extending the boundary of the solar system.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 Nov. 2019
• Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are just outside the heliosphere, a bubble of magnetic fields and particles created by the sun.
  — Ryan Prior, CNN, 3 Nov. 2020
• Researchers studying exoplanets are keen to compare the Sun’s heliosphere with those around other stars.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 7 May 2022
• And unlike the Voyager missions, the interstellar probe would be designed specifically to study the outer edge of the heliosphere and its environs.
  — Tim Folger, Scientific American, 18 June 2022
• Once scientists process that data here on Earth, scientists hope to have a clearer understanding of how the sun and its dynamic heliosphere works.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2020
• The heliosphere is important in keeping dangerous cosmic rays from the interstellar medium out of the main areas of the solar system.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2018
• Less solar wind would mean that the heliosphere–a bubble around the solar system maintained by particles emitted from the sun–shrinks significantly.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2017
• Solar Orbiter will connect what's going on at the sun with what's happening out in the heliosphere in unprecedented detail, mission team members have said.
  — Amy Thompson, Scientific American, 10 Feb. 2020
• Solar wind is in actuality plasma flowing from the sun, and the heliopause is the last segment of a bubble encompassing the entire solar system known as the heliosphere.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Dec. 2018
• Speedy particles that originate outside the solar system, they are partially blocked by the heliosphere.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Oct. 2018
• Both are in interstellar space and the only spacecraft to operate beyond the heliosphere, the sun’s bubble of magnetic fields and particles that extends well beyond the orbit of Pluto.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 May 2023
• Atmospheric conditions The solar system is enveloped by a huge bubble called the heliosphere.
  — National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2019
• The orbiter is set to study the sun’s heliosphere, that protective plasma bubble that encases our solar system, in an effort to better understand solar wind, space weather, and the sun’s magnetic field.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2020

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