science || tech || history on Instagram: "Solar wind is a continuous stream of charged particles—mostly electrons and protons—flowing outward from the Sun in all directions. It’s created because the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is so hot that its particles gain enough energy to escape the Sun’s gravity. As this wind travels through space, it carries the Sun’s magnetic field with it, forming a huge bubble around our solar system called the heliosphere. When the solar wind reaches Earth, ou