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   Raesean on July 10, 2013 at 2:48 pm

   Cool!

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   joekc6nlx on July 11, 2013 at 8:15 pm

   I would have thought that there would be a heliotail anyway, since the sun discharges so many tons of matter every second in the solar wind. But, also because the sun is moving through space with the rest of the galaxy, going in one direction, which then would possibly mean that the solar wind “ahead” of the sun could pile up like a wave in front of the sun, while the rest of the heliotail would stream behind the sun. Unlike comets, whose tails are pushed back by the solar wind, the heliotail would be particles that were pushed directly back along the sun’s path, but also those particles off to the sides which might be affected enough by the sun’s gravity to have their vectors changed slightly enough to fall behind the sun and give the impression of a tail. Just thinking…….

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