The Ladder of Scale · structure
Solar System (to the heliopause)
Local · 240 AU
- Coordinates
- origin — we are inside it
- RA (deg)
- 0
- Dec (deg)
- 0
- Within
- Oort Cloud
- Population
- 1 star, 8 planets
- Size (ly)
- 0.0038
- Kind
- Local
Notes
Where the solar wind gives way to the interstellar medium, about 120 astronomical units out. Voyager 1 crossed it in 2012 and is the only object to have sent back a measurement from the other side.
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