How do you use Heliopause in a sentence? See 8 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like boundary or bound, plus the exact meaning.
Heliopause in a sentence
Heliopause meaning
The boundary of heliosphere where the Sun's solar wind is stopped by the interstellar medium.
Using Heliopause
- The main meaning on this page is: The boundary of heliosphere where the Sun's solar wind is stopped by the interstellar medium.
- Useful related words include: boundary, bound, bounds.
- In the example corpus, heliopause often appears in combinations such as: the heliopause, heliopause is.
Context around Heliopause
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Heliopause
- In this selection, "heliopause" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, acts stand out and add context to how "heliopause" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the heliopause acts as and and the heliopause is more. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "heliopause" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with heliopause
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This boundary is where hot solar wind meets cold interstellar space, and it’s called the heliopause. (17 words)
The outer boundary of the heliosheath is called the heliopause which is where the spacecraft are headed now. (18 words)
The heliopause has never been reached by any spacecraft so far and the Voyagers may be the first spacecraft to reach it. (22 words)
The point where the solar wind's strength is no longer great enough to push back the interstellar medium is known as the heliopause and is often considered to be the outer border of the Solar System. (37 words)
Note the vast distances condensed into an exponential scale: Earth is 1 astronomical unit (AU) from the Sun; Saturn is nine times further out, and the Heliopause is more than 100 times further out than Earth. (36 words)
The solar wind travels outward continuously through the heliosphere, citation citation forming the solar magnetic field into a spiral shape, until it impacts the heliopause more than 50 AU from the Sun. (32 words)
Example sentences (8)
This boundary is where hot solar wind meets cold interstellar space, and it’s called the heliopause.
Note the vast distances condensed into an exponential scale: Earth is 1 astronomical unit (AU) from the Sun; Saturn is nine times further out, and the Heliopause is more than 100 times further out than Earth.
The heliopause has never been reached by any spacecraft so far and the Voyagers may be the first spacecraft to reach it.
The outer boundary of the heliosheath is called the heliopause which is where the spacecraft are headed now.
The point where the solar wind's strength is no longer great enough to push back the interstellar medium is known as the heliopause and is often considered to be the outer border of the Solar System.
The region between the termination shock and the heliopause acts as a barrier to cosmic rays, decreasing the flux at lower energies (≤ 1 GeV) by about 90%.
The solar wind travels outward continuously through the heliosphere, citation citation forming the solar magnetic field into a spiral shape, until it impacts the heliopause more than 50 AU from the Sun.
Thus, in interstellar spaceflight outside the heliopause of a star a magnetic sail could act as a parachute to decelerate a spacecraft.
Common combinations with heliopause
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the heliopause 10×
- heliopause is 2×