Heliosphere

A Heliosphere is a bubble-like region of space dominated by one or more stars.

• It extends far beyond the orbit of the outermost planet of a system.
• It extents well past the Kuiper Belt and into the Oort Clouds.

Description / Specifications

Plasma "blown" out from the star, known as the solar wind, creates and maintains a bubble or cavity against the outside pressure of the interstellar medium, the hydrogen and helium gas that permeates the Galaxy.

• Some call this hypothetical boundary the Hill Sphere.

The solar wind is extremely important to vessels employing Solar Sails.

History & Background / Dossier

The Heliosphere represents the symbolic domain of an astrographic hex as designated by the IISS.

References & Contributors / Sources

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), 400, 709-721.
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science