What Does the Edge of the Solar System Look Like?

Answer 1

What's out there at the boundaries of our solar system?

Starting out at a view of our Milky Way galaxy, the orange gas in the animation represents the interstellar medium. The bow shock is created because the heliosphere is moving through like a boat through the water, crashing through the interstellar gases. The bow shock in front of the moving heliosphere is similar to the one observed by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The heliopause is the last boundary of that region where interstellar space, or matter from other stars, takes over as the ruler of the roost. Entering the fluid region known as the heliosheath, past the theoretical boundary of the 'termination shock,' however, marks the first step toward that ultimate goal. The heliosheath represents a mixing bowl-region in which smaller amounts of solar wind mix with gas from outside our solar system.

So, in laments terms, the edge of the solar system looks like a whole bunch of planetary and asteroidal matter...the "Galaxy's dump" if you will! Click the link in sources to see for yourself!

Answer 2

The "edge" of our Solar System is referred to as the Oort Cloud (named after the astronomer that discovered it). It is where comets come from. It is the stuff that was blown away from the inner Solar System by an event that happened in the sun billions of years ago, when it released a great burst of solar energy called the T-Tauri wind, which basically did a little "house-cleaning" of our Solar System, pushing all the left-over stuff from the planetary-forming epoch of our Solar System to a few light-months out, leaving just the large planetary bodies that make up our Solar System and blowing the rest of the stuff to a distance that is on the cusp of "interstellar space." That is the edge. After that, the nearest thing is Proxima Centauri, a star that is part of the triple-star system Alpha Centauri (which can be seen in the southern hemisphere). Proxima Centauri is about 4 light years distant (24 trillion miles).

Answer 3

I think that the edge of the solar system is probably like the outskirts or edge of a town or metropolitan area. It's probably a vacant space until the next solar system begins. Just my opinion...

Answer 4

If by end, you mean the distant place where the sun is nothing but a remote glint, then it is all dark and cold, and there is almost nothing. The Oort cloud is not very dense, and objects are even more rare than in the inner solar system. You'd essentially feel like if you are between star systems, in interstallar space, except that one star (the sun) appears a bit closer and brighter.

Answer 5

Like the rest of the universe, dark and filled with more solar systems

Answer 6

The edge of our solar system (if you could see by the time you get there, or still retain heat) would be filled with gigantic pieces of ice and asteroids, or at least, that's how I understand it being described.

Answer 7

The edge would look like an edge, only it would be a mirage since there is no edge to universe.

Answer 8

it looks the same as the begining of the solar system.i guess.

Answer 9

Like the WB

Black with no stars

Answer 10

every answer that is posted is merly a guess, being that none of these ppl have even been any where close to outter space.