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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 point — coined by analogy with tropopause and other atmospheric boundary layers, once astronomers realized the sun's influence, like a planet's, has a literal edge.
voyager 1crossed it in 2012, still transmitting
distanceroughly 120 astronomical units from the sun
shapelopsided, dented by the galaxy's own wind
not a wallpressure balance, not a physical barrier