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Filling the Solar System with AIR - What would happen?
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Gradually gliding into a gaseous cloud that the sun lights up would be genuinely fascinating, but still probably kill everyone. Pros and cons.
... would it affect the northern hemisphere first? I have no idea which direction the solar system actually proceeds.
most everything in the milky way galaxy is orbiting the center of the galaxy clockwise relative to our north*, so we'd probably enter the gas cloud from the side by drifting into it faster than it is moving
*that's orbital north, the direction that's perpendicular to orbit and close-ish to the magnetic north pole (which is tilted relative to the orbit)