What Is the Solar Wind?

The solar wind is something that actually is kind of well-named because when you think about a wind on Earth, you're thinking about like high speed particles pushing on you. Well, the solar wind is sort of similar. The sun doesn't just put out photons. It also puts out particles. Proton's, electrons, electrons, all these things moving at very, very high speeds, like hundreds of kilometers per second. So this is what we call the solar wind, and it flies out through the whole solar system,. You get the solar wind even out here on Earth, then it's far out of Jupiter and Neptune. There are also other mysteries about this solar wind.