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Loading contentThe boundary where the supersonic solar wind abruptly slows as it runs into the pressure of the interstellar medium, roughly ninety astronomical units from the Sun. Voyager 1 crossed it in 2004 and Voyager 2 in 2007 — the first direct measurements of this shock.
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