Animation, zooming out from <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Scorpio" title="Category:Scorpio">Scorpio</a> to a full sky view of the stars. It blends over to a color-coded full sky neutral atom map, as obtained with IBEX at energies where the interstellar wind is the brightest feature in the maps. In Earth's orbit, where IBEX makes its observations, the maximum flow (in red) is seen to arrive from <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Libra" title="Libra">Libra</a> instead of Scorpio because the interstellar wind is forced to curve around the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a> by gravity.
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
2012-01-27
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