This magnetosphere is efficient at deflecting the solar wind particles from the Sun.
These supercharged solar wind particles finally reached us two days later.
Interactions between energetic solar wind particles and cometary material evaporating from the nucleus is likely to contribute significantly to this effect.
The aurora is produced by solar wind particles guided by Earth's field lines to the top of the atmosphere.
Also, fewer solar wind particles reach the asteroid belt.
Coherent magnetic fields wrapped it in a warm golden glow of captured solar wind particles.
Genesis exposed its collector arrays on 3 December, and began collecting solar wind particles.
The comet and its induced magnetic field form an obstacle to outward flowing solar wind particles.
She has made important contributions to the study of solar wind particles and fields; sun-Earth relations; and magnetospheric physics.
Before this discovery, it was unclear why the solar wind particles would heat up, instead of cool down, when speeding away from the sun's surface.