UNIVERSE
THE SUN
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Earth’s wind
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Streams of magnetically charged particles
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Streams of electric charged particles
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Gas erupting into space
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Detailed explanation-1: -The solar wind is created by the outward expansion of plasma (a collection of charged particles) from the Sun’s corona (outermost atmosphere). This plasma is continually heated to the point that the Sun’s gravity can’t hold it down. It then travels along the Sun’s magnetic field lines that extend radially outward.
Detailed explanation-2: -noun. : plasma continuously ejected from the sun’s surface into and through interplanetary space.
Detailed explanation-3: -Inside a boundary called the magnetopause, the earth’s magnetic field is dominant over the effects of the solar wind. The small fraction of the charged particles which do leak through the magnetopause are trapped in two large doughnut-shaped rings called the Van Allen radiation belts.
Detailed explanation-4: -High-speed solar wind streams come from areas on the sun known as coronal holes. These holes can form anywhere on the sun and usually, only when they are closer to the solar equator, do the winds they produce impact Earth.