A team led by Merav Opher at George Mason University has determined that our solar system and its associated planets, collectively know as the heliosphere, is bu llet-shaped. Further, this bullet is moving through the Milky Way Galaxy at 62,000 miles per hour. That's one awfully fast-moving bullet.
Opher used data collected by the Voyager, that space probe that was launched in the 1970s and has just now reached the outer edges of our solar system.
"The shape of the solar system, this bullet, is really shaped by what lies ahead of us—the interstellar magnetic field," Opher told National Geographic News.
"The [prevailing] idea is that the environment just outside our solar system is patchy and turbulent," she added.
