Heliosphere Maps

  • Released Monday, August 25, 2025
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The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and study how the heliosphere interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.

Learn more about IMAP: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/

Conceptual Animation

Animation credit: NASA/Princeton/Patrick McPike

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

This page was originally published on Monday, August 25, 2025.
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