What Really Exists Above And Below Our Solar System
Close your eyes and let your mind drift above and below the solar system, into a cosmos far stranger than any flat diagram suggests. A journey into the third dimension of our star. The solar system is astonishingly thin, and the plane of the planets is tilted sixty degrees from the Milky Way's own plane. Above and below lies a chasm of hidden structures: the Local Bubble carved by ancient supernovae, the spherical Oort Cloud of frozen worlds, the ancient stellar halo, and the enormous Fermi Bubbles towering over the galactic center. The simplest question about the Sun becomes a doorway into…
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