Solar wind

The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun. This plasma consists of mostly electrons, protons and alpha particles with energies usually between 1.5 and 10 keV; embedded in the solar-wind plasma is the interplanetary magnetic field. The solar wind varies in density, temperature and speed over time and over solar longitude. Its particles can escape the Sun's gravity because of their high energy, from the high temperature of the corona and magnetic, electrical and electromagnetic phenomena in it.

The solar winds flow outward supersonically at varying speeds depending on their origin reaching up to around one million miles per hour to great distances, filling a region known as the heliosphere, an enormous bubble-like volume surrounded by the interstellar medium. Other related phenomena include the aurora (northern and southern lights), the plasma tails of comets that always point away from the Sun, and geomagnetic storms that can change the direction of magnetic field lines and create strong currents in power grids on Earth.

Solar wind (disambiguation)

Solar wind is a stellar phenomenon of the Sun

Solar wind may also refer to:

  • Stellar wind, gas ejected from the atmosphere of stars
  • Solar Winds, a computer game
  • SolarWinds, a network management software company
  • Solar Wind (film), 1980, Finnish science fiction film based on the novel Aurinkotuuli (1975) by Kullervo Kukkasjärvi
  • Solar Wind (comic), a British comic
  • Hearing Solar Winds, an album of composer David Hykes
  • "Solar Wind", a song by Snowkel which is also the second ending theme for Japanese anime series Kiba
  • See also

  • Stellar wind (disambiguation)
  • Solar Wind (album)

    Solar Wind is an album by pianist Ramsey Lewis which was recorded in 1974 and released on the Columbia label. It was partly recorded in Memphis with former Stax producer and session guitarist, Steve Cropper, a member of the Booker T and the MGs group.

    Reception

    Allmusic awarded the album 2 stars.

    Track listing

  • "Sweet and Tender You" (Steve Cropper, Carl Marsh) - 5:47
  • "Hummingbird" (Jim Seals, Dash Crofts) - 4:52
  • "Solar Wind" (Cropper, Marsh) - 3:15
  • "Jamaican Marketplace" (Cleveland Eaton, Ramsey Lewis) - 7:16
  • "The Everywhere Calypso" (Sonny Rollins) - 2:59
  • "Summer Breeze" (Seals, Crofts) - 4:51
  • "Loves Me Like a Rock" (Paul Simon) - 4:30
  • "Come Down in Time" (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) - 4:53
  • "Love For a Day" (Cropper, Carl Marsh) - 4:56
  • Recorded at Trans Maximus Inc. Recording Studios, Memphis (tracks 1, 7 & 9) and CBS Recording Studios, Chicago (tracks 2-6 & 8)
  • Personnel

  • Ramsey Lewis - keyboards, ARP and Moog
  • Cleveland Eaton - bass, electric bass
  • Morris Jennings - drums, percussion
  • Podcasts:

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    Solar Wind

    by: Heart Of Sun

    Life is an illusion
    Wich never comes to an end
    There’s no death in this domain
    Only a neverending breath
    I remember me on the shore
    Under the blu sky of childhood
    Listening at the salty wind
    Whispering promises of eternity
    Blow me through this space
    Far away from this decay
    This metal shell's out of control
    Lost in your embrace unto the unknown
    Life is but a dream
    Of a mind which is being dreamed
    Divinity becoming matter
    Godly love turning to gravity
    In a universe so calm
    This endless wave of consciousness
    Radiates in a moltitude of circles
    Touching the outer limits of existence
    This solar wind forever blows
    Over a deep persistent sea
    I’ll walk again on that shore
    As i did millions of times
    My footprints left forever and ever




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