The solar wind is a stream of electronically charged particles (plasma), which are ejected from the upper atmosphere of the sun. It consists mostly of high-energy electrons and protons (about 1 keV=1.6*10-19) that are able to escape the sun's gravity because of the high temperature of the corona and the high kinetic energy particles gain through a process that is not well understood at this time.
Many phenomenon are related to the solar wind, including geomagnetic storms capable of knocking out power grids on Earth, Northern Lights (e.g., Northern Lights) and the plasma tail of a comet always pointing away from the sun. While early models of the solar wind used primarily thermal energy to accelerate the material, by the 1960s it was clear that thermal acceleration alone cannot account for the high speed solar wind. Some additional acceleration mechanism is required, but is not currently known, but most likely relates to magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere.
In the heliosphere,......

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Title: Solar Winds
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