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Science 10 November 1995:
Vol. 270. no. 5238, p. 912
DOI: 10.1126/science.270.5238.912
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Research News

James Glanz

Chicago--New results from the U.S.-European solar satellite, Ulysses, have indicated that the heliosphere--a region carved out of the thin gases of interstellar space by the wind of charged particles streaming from the sun--is not spherical, as physicists have generally pictured it. Instead, it is shaped more like a peanut, with its "waist" in the same plane as the solar system.




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