solar wind
noun
: plasma continuously ejected from the sun's surface into and through interplanetary space
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Auroras occur when solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field.
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Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025
In the second case, the IMF is carried outwards by the solar wind and bumps into the magnetic field of the earth as the solar wind is diverted around it.
—Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
How the aurora works Aurorae appear in the night sky when a burst of energetic particles in a solar wind are hurled out by a coronal mass ejection on the sun.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
The missions will each focus on different effects of the solar wind and space weather, from their origins at the Sun to their farthest reaches billions of miles away at the edge of our Solar System.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
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Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025
In the second case, the IMF is carried outwards by the solar wind and bumps into the magnetic field of the earth as the solar wind is diverted around it.
—Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
How the aurora works Aurorae appear in the night sky when a burst of energetic particles in a solar wind are hurled out by a coronal mass ejection on the sun.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
The missions will each focus on different effects of the solar wind and space weather, from their origins at the Sun to their farthest reaches billions of miles away at the edge of our Solar System.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Solar wind.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solar%20wind. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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