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- noun astronomy A region of
interstellar space containing about one tenth the density of matter than the average for ourgalaxy .
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There are some good ideas in the book too – fast-space the Local Bubble, perhaps?
Rounding off the round-ups « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2010
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Lying outside the Local Bubble, the Rift is the farthest point in the galaxy we've ever traveled to.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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I could still make out the Local Bubble, but only because I had been concentrating on it all the way out.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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Schedar was a K supergiant out toward the edge of the Local Bubble.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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The familiar landscape of the Local Bubble loomed large.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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Energetic Neutral Atoms, registered by IBEX detectors, are born out of ions (protons) speeding from the very hot Local Bubble when they exchange charge with the relatively cool atoms "evaporating" from the Local Interstellar Cloud.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Local Bubble nearby to the boundary with the Local Cloud snatch electrons from the neutral atoms and run away in all directions, some of them reaching IBEX.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Cloud and the Local Bubble might be not within a few light years from the Sun, as it was believed earlier, but within just a thousand of astronomical units, a thousand-fold closer.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Small Explorer satellite IBEX, could be explained by a geometric effect coming up because of approach of the Sun to the boundary between the Local Cloud of interstellar gas and another cloud of a very hot gas called the Local Bubble.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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This might mean that the Solar System could enter the million-degree Local Bubble cloud as early as the next century.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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