searching for information about solar winds in my astronomy class

Hi napari,

Thank you for your question.

Solar wind is the plasma of charged particles (protons, electrons, and
heavier ionized atoms) coming out of the Sun in all directions at very
high speeds -- an average of about 400 km/sec, almost a million mph.



Basic Facts About the Solar Wind
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/spaceweather/sun_earth6.html

"The sun is flinging 1 million tons of matter out into space every
second. If you add all this up over the course of a day, it's
comparable to the mass of Utah's Great Salt Lake. And this happens
every day, day after day, year after year.

This mass loss is called the solar wind. The solar wind is formed as
the sun's topmost layer blows off into space carrying with it magnetic
fields still attached to the sun. Gusts and disturbances form in the
solar wind associated with violent events on the sun.

The gusting and blowing of the solar wind against the Earth's
protective magnetic shield in space is responsible for spaceweather
storms."

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BLowing in the Solar Wind
http://www.sunblock99.org.uk/sb99/people/JInsley/sb99_win.html_keep1


Solar Wind
http://www.fact-index.com/s/so/solar_wind.html


Solar Physics - The Solar Wind
http://science.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/sun_wind.htm


Solar Wind Effects
http://www.agu.org/revgeophys/reid00/node4.html


Solar Wind
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/solar_wind.html

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Best regards,
tlspiegel

You ask :-

?searching for information about solar winds in my astronomy class?

I sincerely hope there are no significant solar winds in your
astronomy class. Very unhealthy. However beyond Earth?s atmosphere,
there are 725,000 pages which come up with ?solar wind? (include the
quote marks) in Google. Take your pick.

Best