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Terameter's Room - looking at a sheet of graph paper
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| galaxy | | 21 |
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| local stars | 18 |
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| between | 15 |
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| E's orbit | 12 |
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| sun | 9 |
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| texas | 6 |
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| hood | 3 |
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| you | 0 |
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| salt grain | -3 |
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| bacteria | -6 |
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| atom | -9 |
1012 m 
1 Tm
1013 m 10 Tm
1014 m 100 Tm
Our solar system is in an interstellar cloud blowing by (diagrams in Petapaper).
The Sun itself blows outward. This solar wind pushes back on the interstellar cloud,
forming a bubble. This heliosphere bubble leaves a wake in the intersellar cloud.
Neptune's orbit
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