What is Solar Wind and why does it make planets without magnetic fields uninhabitable?
In: Physics
The solar wind is a stream of highly energetic, electrically charged particles released from the sun’s upper atmosphere as part of its nuclear processes.
The issue with this is that, in the absence of a magnetic field, it’ll start tearing the atmosphere away from a planet, and then bathing the planet’s surface in radiation, both of which are very bad.
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