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solar wind

NOUN
  1. a stream of protons moving radially from the sun

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  • In our own solar system, the solar wind is responsible for shaping comets' tails and producing the Aurorae Borealis on Earth.
  • It slows as it begins to collide with the interstellar medium, and the point where the solar wind slows down is the termination shock; the point where the interstellar medium and solar wind pressures balance is called the heliopause; the point where the interstellar medium, traveling in the opposite direction, slows down as it collides with the heliosphere is the bow shock. Spacecraft Detects Mysterious "Ribbon" at Edge of Solar System | Universe Today
  • The gas pressure eventually overcomes the force of solar gravity and the corona inevitably expands into space as the solar wind .
  • Its last assignment was to find the heliopause, where the solar wind is offset by the galactic wind, but in April 1997 it was passed by a younger, faster Voyager spacecraft.
  • The clouds of gas swirled and mixed as their electrons changed polarity, flickering colors that moved with the solar winds of a million suns.
  • With the brilliant disk of the Sun blocked, the faint light of the corona reveals streamers of solar wind blowing out into space.
  • The magnetosphere varies in size and shape, and its outer boundary - the magnetopause - gently undulates like a wave due to buffeting by the solar wind.
  • Like the Solar Wind, the magnetosphere is full of plasma, consisting of ions and electrons.
  • Either it was deposited by comets hitting the moon, or produced by solar winds hitting the lunar surface. Times, Sunday Times
  • Like the Solar Wind, the magnetosphere is full of plasma, consisting of ions and electrons.
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