Introduction to the Heliopause

  • Released Wednesday, September 22, 2010
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Dr. Merav Opher talks about the heliopause, the distant region where the solar wind collides with the interstellar medium. She is an astrophysicist and an associate professor of physics and astronomy at George Mason University. These short videos were produced for the Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum and the Space Weather Media Viewer. The Space Weather Media Viewer is an application built to support Education and Public Outreach activities of NASA. Many of the images that appear in this viewer are "near-real time" and come from a variety of NASA Missions.

What is the heliopause?

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What NASA missions investigate the heliopause?

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What are we learning about the edge of the solar system?

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What are the consequences of this new knowledge to our understanding of the heliosphere?

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What are the consequences in other fields?

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What do we expect to learn from the heliosphere in the next couple of years?

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This page was originally published on Wednesday, September 22, 2010.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT.

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