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Where Does the Solar System Actually End
Where does the Solar System actually end? Is it beyond Neptune, at the edge of Pluto's orbit, or somewhere far beyond the last known planets? The answer is much stranger than most people imagine.
Take a relaxing journey through the outer reaches of our cosmic neighbourhood and discover the Kuiper Belt, the distant dwarf planets, the mysterious Oort Cloud, and the enormous invisible boundary created by the Sun's influence.
Explore the heliosphere, the termination shock, and the heliopause, where the solar wind finally meets the interstellar medium. Discover why Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 crossed…
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