Heliospheres: Cells in a Cosmic Ocean

Xavier Stachowiak
7 min readOct 31, 2023

A heliosphere is the vaguely spherical region of space where the pressure of the solar wind emanating from any given sun is sufficient to create a bubble of sparse plasma and a void in the interstellar medium, eventually terminating at the heliopause.

globular illuminated objects connected by wispy strands of some translucent material — MidJourney AI
Are these cells or way too spherical heliospheres?

Strictly speaking — heliosphere refers only to the heliosphere of our sun, and solar wind, when that “wind” is not emanating from our own sun, “Sol”…

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Xavier Stachowiak

Temporal diode in the reality continuum... and aspiring writer about topics I find interesting. Thanks for reading! :)