Crossword clues for heliopause
Wiktionary
n. (context astronomy English) The boundary of heliosphere where the Sun's solar wind is stopped by the interstellar medium.
WordNet
n. the boundary marking the edge of the sun's influence; the boundary (roughly 100 AU from the sun) between the interplanetary medium and the interstellar medium; where the solar wind and the wind from other stars meet
Wikipedia
Heliopause are a U.K. band based in Belfast and Brighton, led by filmmaker Richard Davis. The band is known for performing in unusual locations such as May Street church, the Ulster Hall, the Palm House at Botanic Gardens, the dome over Belfast's Victoria Square shopping centre, at the Willowstone music festival and the Hammer gallery in Berlin.
They released their debut EP Dark Matter on Furious Tradesmen in May 2008, two months after the exquisite instrumental band from which they took their name released their self-titled debut EP Heliopause on Rampapo records. Guitarist Michael Kinloch departed after the EP's release to concentrate on playing bass in Not Squares. Chris McCorry, formerly of Cutaways joined in late 2008 and the trio released a handmade single, Moment of Recognition in 2009. Their début album "Walk Into the Sea" was recorded at Belfast's Start Together studio in summer 2009, and released on 1 October 2010.
Heliopause is the fourth album by The Resonance Association, and the third to be released on their own label mrsvee recordings in October 2011. Reviews were mixed; Echoes & Dust said "[they] have produced a soundtrack to a film that does not exist. This is not a derisory comment, the film should exist and if it matched the music on offer over the albums 74 minutes, it would be intense, eventful and at times mesmerising". while Incendiary Magazine commented "...it’s long, indulgent and painstaking in its thoroughness and dedication: and not everything will be for you. But the good bits are very good indeed.".
Heliopause may refer to:
- the theoretical boundary where the Sun's solar wind is stopped by the interstellar medium. See Heliosphere.
- Heliopause (band), a U.K. band
- Heliopause (album), a 2011 album by The Resonance Association
Usage examples of "heliopause".
Indeed, as the Fiver sped toward the heliopause, they left the cabin, and the bed, only to eat, bathe, and do cursory checks of their progress.
Despite her good health, she started feeling queasy before they reached the heliopause of the second M-planet system.
They were three hours away from the heliopause when Helm announced receipt of an encrypted message from Admiral Gollanch.
Insystem drive at heliopause and are reducing our speed preparatory to landing at the coordinates on record.
They are already through the heliopause, the perimeter of the solar wind.
We've time in hand, I think, before the alien vessel gets anywhere near Aurigae's heliopause.
On its way from Earth to Venus, it discovered and measured the solar wind—the stream of charged particles that flows outward from the Sun, filling the magnetospheres of any planets in its way, blowing back the tails of comets, and establishing the distant heliopause.
Three years later the Mother Hive ship, a spherical leviathan, appears at Deneb heliopause.
A few deaths, a little expense, along the way must not deflect the nationalities from achieving our destiny, the conquest of all solar space, from the planet Mercury right out to the heliopause.
They were nearing the heliopause when Zainal mentioned quite casually, Kris thought, it was just possible that they might have a little trouble getting the second ship through the Balloon.
We crossed the heliopause, the invisible boundary where solar wind stops pushing away interstellar dust, and plunged on into deep space.