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The average Earth-sun distance is 150 million kilometers ... But why is it so often shown as practically an egg shape? And how can we visualize the real situation? In order to try to understand ...

They noted that the unique shape may also be tied to the streamer's position near one of the sun's polar regions, where magnetic fields are usually much stronger than near the sun's equator.