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The heliosphere is a gigantic plasma bubble cut out of the surrounding interstellar medium by the wind emitted by the Sun. It is the only accessible astrosphere and thus allows in-situ studies of fundamental physical and astrophysical processes

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The heliosphere serves as a shield against the changing interstellar neighborhood—yet our understanding of its structure and especially its boundaries is severely limited as is evident from SOHO, Ulysses, and Voyager measurements, as we will see in the discussion of question H4 (Fig. 3 ).

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