solar wind
noun
: plasma continuously ejected from the sun's surface into and through interplanetary space
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One type of slow solar wind, called Alfvénic, has small-scale switchbacks.
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Victoria Corless, Space.com, 14 July 2025
How the Sun's solar winds impact Earth's atmosphere The Earth's magnetic field is our invisible protector.
—Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 14 July 2025
The blue ion tail appears to have kinks because of strong solar winds when it was photographed.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2025
Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb proposed that 'Oumuamua was actually a thin solar sail (a sail designed to catch solar radiation instead of wind), which had caught the solar wind and used it to accelerate.
—Kiona N. Smith, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
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Victoria Corless, Space.com, 14 July 2025
How the Sun's solar winds impact Earth's atmosphere The Earth's magnetic field is our invisible protector.
—Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 14 July 2025
The blue ion tail appears to have kinks because of strong solar winds when it was photographed.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2025
Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb proposed that 'Oumuamua was actually a thin solar sail (a sail designed to catch solar radiation instead of wind), which had caught the solar wind and used it to accelerate.
—Kiona N. Smith, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
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“Solar wind.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solar%20wind. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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