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the sun's breath finally gives out and the galaxy takes over.

means the boundary where the solar wind from our sun gets too weak to push back the wider galaxy's wind, marking the practical edge of the solar system.

from from helio- (sun) plus pause, meaning a stopping pointcoined by analogy with tropopause and other atmospheric boundary layers, once astronomers realized the sun's influence, like a planet's, has a literal edge.

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