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Looking Up: Night sky is full of tails 

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Guess what. A few years ago, NASA found that our solar system has a tail.No, we haven't heard that it is wagging and a far as we know the only one that has caught it is NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer space probe. This was in 2009.This tail is a stream of charged particles originating in the Sun. They stream backwards from the Sun's path of travel through galactic space. The effect is a long tail pointing back from where the Sun (and its planets) has come.The [...]

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