Are we seeing the heliosphere of other stars? It reminds me in its simplicity of what I've seen from the Thunderbolts project. Instead of "debris disks" (comparable to "dirty snowball" asteroids as a meme), just a plasma structure, invisible of course to anyone pretending like the universe is empty vacuum and gravity the only force. "Gravitational lensing" could then be, literally, just light bending through the heliosphere around other stars. The "cosmic microwave background" could be our own heliosheath. And, much like a fish in a fish bowl, the universe around us could be distorted in perspective, making things appear further away than they are.
