What causes or creates Solar winds?
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Nasa - The Solar Wind
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Solar wind is a constant flow of gases from the sun. It results from the expansion of gases in the corona. Billions and billions of particles are produced by the sun each second it burns, giving off heat and light. A vast majority of these particles have an electric charge (a plus or minus), and in turn these particles are affected by the sun’s magnetic field. These small particles are then blasted into the upper part of the sun’s atmosphere by intense radiation from the sun’s core. The upper region of the sun’s atmosphere that these particles are blasted into is known as the corona. When electrons are caught in the corona they become heated to temperatures exceeding four million degrees F. This causes the particles to move very rapidly, and they collide into each other and lose their electrons and become electrically charged particles. These particles are known as ions and they make up the solar wind.
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sunspots are cool areas on the surface of the sun, a prominence connects two sunspots, and when prominences cross, they make this huge energy thing called a solar flare. Since solar flares have so much power, they release solar winds into space!! cool, huh?
Don't think of it as a wind so much as a stream of particles. The sun is constantly erupting and spewing out all kinds of things. Some of those things are high energy and very light. They go zinging off and don't get pulled back by the gravity.
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is really good.
When two or more cosmic object`s collide,they create force, thus creating solar wind.With nothing to slow or stop this wind,it continues around the galaxy, in combination with solar flairs erupting,also contributes to the solar wind`s.
Is the wind blowing or are objects moving through space so fast that there appears to be a wind like holding you arm out of the window of a moving car on a windless day?
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