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The tail’s mostly made up of solar wind plasma and a magnetic field that extend forever outward behind the solar system, eventually merging back into the unremarkable blackness of interstellar space.

With more incoming data from IBEX and more number-crunching by the lab coat wearers here on Earth, we’re bound to find out more about this mysterious comet-like tail years down the line. But for now, it’s cool to know our little corner of the universe is its own shooting star.

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This is incredibly fascinating. For the first time we are getting a glimpse of our Solar System traveling through space.