Solar Winds are streams of energized charges particles, these are mostly electrons and protons. The winds flow from the sun through the solar system. Sometimes these can be of speeds as high as 900km/s and at a temperature of 1 million degrees celsius.
The Sun's corona, taken by the SOHO satellite with a special camera that blocks out light from the Sun's main disk. Courtesy of SOHO consortium. SOHO is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA."
The solar wind is what blows the tails of comets back away from the bodies of comets as they go through the solar system.
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