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  🚀 Mapping the Edge of the Solar System: Inside NASA’s IMAP Mission Have you ever wondered where our solar system ends and the rest of the galaxy begins? That’s exactly the kind of cosmic mystery NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is setting out to solve. Launching in September 2025 , IMAP will take a deep dive into the invisible frontier between us and interstellar space — a region where the Sun’s influence fades and the galaxy starts to take over. It's one of NASA's most ambitious heliophysics missions yet, and it could change the way we understand our place in the universe. 🌌 What Is IMAP All About? The IMAP mission is designed to answer some really big questions: How does the solar wind interact with interstellar space? How are high-energy particles accelerated in space? What does the boundary of the solar system really look like? These aren’t just academic puzzles. Understanding how charged particles behave in space can help us prote...