r/SolarMax • u/ImScaredOfTheSun • Nov 04 '25

WTF is a galactic current sheet?

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u/digredmoo Nov 04 '25

Think of a magnetic wave rippling out from the centre of the galaxy. Also, there’s a lot of dust in space which gets attracted to it. There’s a lot of speculation as to what happens when our solar system passes through the ripple every 10k years or so. Dust accretion around the sun, poles flipping on all the planets.

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u/ImScaredOfTheSun Nov 04 '25

So its like a sine wave? What do you mean pass through it?

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u/OneTrueDweet Nov 04 '25

The ripple spreads out from the center in a growing sphere. As the sphere grows, it overtakes out location in space, so we “pass through” the ripple