WHAT IS SOLAR WIND ?

                        WHAT ARE SOLAR WIND ?

Solar wind occurs when atomic particle  stream out from the sun's corona. A gust can amount to one million tons of matter per second .Solar wind consists mostly of protons and electrons ,with tiny amounts  of silica,sulfur, calcium, chromium,nickel,neon, and argon ions.It travels up to 540 miles a second -faster when escaping through coronal holes.Were solar wind encounters planetary magnetic fields, it can cause auroras. It also make the tails of comets point away from the sun 

PARTICLES ESCAPE the sun's corona, shown at left,and streak past Earth.Heavy solar wind can disrupt telecommunication on Earth solar wind increase when solar peak.