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ShareA solar wind is a stream of charged particles (i.e., a plasma) which are ejected from the upper atmosphere of a star.
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When originating from stars other than the Earth's Sun, it is sometimes called a stellar wind.
For more information about the topic Solar wind, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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