• Question: if the sun is in space how would you get wind from the sun when there is no air, vaccum?

    Asked by 522tema27 to Joe on 10 Nov 2014.
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      Joe Reed answered on 10 Nov 2014:


      Wind on earth is basically just atoms in the air moving from one place to another. It is the same with solar wind, except this time, instead of atoms of air, it is charged particles from the sun.
      These particles get really really hot and very fast deep inside the sun. Sometimes they are fast enough to escape the gravity of the sun and they are fired out into space. The sun is very big , so this happens a lot. It is all these particles that form the solar wind.

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