solar wind
nounDefinition of solar wind
: plasma continuously ejected from the sun's surface into and through interplanetary space
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Some process heats up these plasmas in the corona to millions of degrees and makes them speed away from the sun as solar wind. — Quanta Magazine, "Sun’s Puzzling Plasma Recreated in a Laboratory," 29 July 2019 It’s created when the solar wind strips electrons from atmospheric gasses, turning them into ions. — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, "Lunar Mysteries That Science Still Needs to Solve," 16 July 2019 In the sun’s corona, billions of tons of plasma can accelerate up to supersonic speeds and blast outward along the solar wind. — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, "Our Sun, the Still-mysterious Star That Gives Us Life," 12 June 2019 That boundary where hot solar wind meets cold interstellar space is called the heliopause. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "NASA's plan to keep the Voyager spacecraft awake and flying," 10 July 2019 Or perhaps the flashes are electrically charged particles of the solar wind that react with moon dust. — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, "What are those mysterious flashes on the moon? One astronomer wants to find out," 3 June 2019 This means the moon holds more water than could have been delivered to it over its lifetime by solar wind or comets, which speaks to a problem planetary scientists have been trying to solve for decades. — Shannon Stirone, National Geographic, "The moon releases surprising amounts of water during meteor showers," 15 Apr. 2019 Later on, the analyzers examined the solar wind for short periods. — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, "Here Comes the Sun! Parker Solar Probe Instruments See 'First Light'," 25 Sep. 2018 Its mission: To investigate solar wind and study extreme particle physics. — Robin Seemangal, Popular Mechanics, "A Workhorse Rocket Maker Tries to Touch the Sun—And Stay Relevant," 16 Aug. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'solar wind.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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