the.com/solar wind
the sun exhales, and every planet gets a face full of it.
means a continuous stream of charged particles blasted off the sun's corona, fast enough to shape entire planetary magnetic fields.
from named in 1958 by physicist eugene parker, who predicted the sun constantly sheds particles rather than just flaring occasionally — a claim so bold that reviewers initially rejected his paper before spacecraft proved him right.
average speedabout 400 kilometers per second, non-stop
aurora causecollides with earth's magnetic field, sparks northern lights
comet tailsalways point away from sun because of it
heliosphere edgemarks where solar wind loses to interstellar space