The solar system has a tail like a comet

The US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) said one of its spacecraft had long suspected that the solar system had a tail like a comet.

Astronomers have argued that while moving through space, the solar system acts as any object gliding in another environment, the most concrete example being a meteorite falling into the gas. Earth's book, and create a long-lasting aura at the back.

The impressive tail of the solar system - (Photo: NASA)

However, the tail of the sun's 'bubble' , known as the heliosphere , has never really been observed, until recently.

Space.com leads NASA's announcement, explorer ship Interplanetary Boundary, called IBEX for the first time, has set the boundary map for the heliosphere's tails for the first time.

Based on the image data collected by IBEX for 3 years, the researchers drew a tail, called the great Japanese, made up of fast and slow moving particles.

Despite the new evidence provided by IBEX, scientists say it is unclear what the true length of this tail is, just guessing that it stretches for nearly 150 billion kilometers.

'Great Japanese is our mark in the Milky Way, and it's great to begin to understand its structure' , according to Eric Christian of the IBEX mission at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

He said the next step is to gather observations and model them to better understand the heliosphere, according to a report on The Astrophysical Journal.