The detection advise
that the defensive border that separate our solar system from the rest of the
galaxy lack the bow shock, because confirmed in the current scientific theories
and could have implication on how much radiation (in the form of galactic cosmic
rays) enters our solar system. For about a quarter of a century, researchers
believed that the heliosphere is moving through the interstellar medium at a
rate fast enough to form a bow shock. However, IBEX data have shown that the
heliosphere actually moves through the local interstellar cloud at 83,685
kilometers per hour, about 11,200 kilometers an hour slower than previously
thought. The bow shock would ionize gas or plasma changes abruptly and
discontinuously in density in the region of space that is ahead of the
heliosphere.
