Although it is not well-known to most people, the outpouring of particles called the solar wind is a part of the Sun's activity. Over a five-day period (August 22-27, 2008), with SOHO's LASCO coronagraph instrument we can observe the faint solar wind quietly but steadily streaming out into space from all areas of the Sun. Its motion is most apparent along the streamers (large magnetic structures seen in the Sun's corona) pointing outwards at the two, three, and nine o'clock positions. Solar wind, primarily electrons and protons, flows outward at speeds as high as 900 km/s. It is essentially the hot solar corona expanding into interplanetary and interstellar space. With the solar activity level near its lowest level of the solar cycle, it is a little easier to spot the solar wind.
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