In astrophysics, a bow shock occurs when the magnetosphere of an astrophysical object interacts with the nearby flowing ambient plasma such as the solar...

A bow shock, also called a detached shock or bowed normal shock, is a curved propagating disturbance wave characterized by an abrupt, nearly discontinuous...

the boundary (bow shock) of a magnetosphere. The name "bow shock" comes from the example of a bow wave, the detached shock formed at the bow (front) of a...

relative to the interstellar medium is probably too low for a bow shock. The termination shock is the point in the heliosphere where the solar wind slows...

bow shock, the stellar wind plasma gains a substantial anisotropy, leading to various plasma instabilities upstream and downstream of the bow shock....

bow shock development when the outgassing increased during the comet's journey toward the Sun. This young bow shock was called the "infant bow shock". The...

moving through the interstellar medium at a speed of 30 km/s, creating a bow shock over four light-years wide. Betelgeuse became the first extrasolar star...

which is unexpected for type Ia but has been observed in some cases. A bow shock located to the north of this system is believed to have been created by...

the density behind a bow shock generated by the body also increases, which corresponds to a decrease in volume behind the shock due to conservation of...

the Earth. It is surrounded by the Sh2-27 "Cobold" nebula, the star's bow shock as it ploughs through dense dust clouds near the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex...