Solar wind
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The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the Sun's outermost atmospheric layer, the corona. This plasma mostly consists of electrons, protons and alpha particles with kinetic ener
Laboratory simulation of the magnetosphere's influence on the solar wind; these aurora-like Birkeland currents were created in a terrella, a magnetised anode globe in an evacuated chamber.
This is thought to show the solar wind from the star L.L. Orionis generating a bow shock (the bright arc).
CME erupts from the Sun
Apollo's SWC experiment
Heliosphere
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The heliosphere is the magnetosphere, astrosphere, and outermost atmospheric layer of the Sun. It takes the shape of a vast, tailed bubble-like region of space. In plasma physics terms, it is the cavi
Solar wind
…km/s and is supersonic, meaning it moves faster than the speed of fast magnetosonic waves. The flow of the solar wind is no longer supersonic at the termination shock. Other related phenomena include the aurora (northern and southern lights), comet tails that always point away from the Sun, and geomagnetic storms…
The Sun photographed at a wavelength of 19.3 nanometers (ultraviolet)
Illustration of the heliosphere as released on 28 June 2013 which incorporates results from the Voyager spacecraft. The heliosheath is between the termination shock and the heliopause.
The bubble-like heliosphere moving through the interstellar medium.
Energetic neutral atom (ENA) detection is more concentrated in one direction.