We Are Trapped Inside a Bubble We Can_t See
Close your eyes and imagine that you, your planet, and every nearby star are drifting through a giant, invisible cavern in space. A quiet story of ancient supernovae, cosmic voids, and a bubble that surrounds everything.The Local Bubble is a vast, low-density region of the interstellar medium, approximately 1,000 light-years in diameter, that contains our Solar System . It is not empty space, but a superheated cavity filled with thin, hot plasma, carved out by a series of massive star explosions that ended around 14 million years ago . The Solar System entered this bubble about 5 to 10…
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