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Boffins hand in their homework on Voyager 2's first readings from beyond Solar System

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Re: I don't understand the diagram

Because the heliosphere is travelling at huge speed, it is compressed at it's forward side and expanded on it's backwards edge. Think Doppler effect on sound as an analogy.

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