Solar wind

Astrometrics panel listing

Listed on a station in astrometrics

Solar wind is a stream of charged particles ejected from a star. It could also be called stellar wind. The interaction of the solar wind with a planet's magnetosphere produces auroras.

Solar winds could be used in a similar fashion to winds on a planet blowing sailing ships across water, instead propelling spaceships like the Bajoran lightship outfitted with solar sails with light pressure. (DS9: "Explorers")

Stellar winds had the capacity to disperse ion trails. (ENT: "Anomaly (ENT)")

Gormaganders fed on alpha particles in solar winds. (DIS: "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad")

In 1979, the Earth probe Pioneer 11 documented solar wind buffeting the magnetosphere of Saturn. (TNG: "Loud As A Whisper" okudagram)

Aboard USS Voyager, a subspace communication station in astrometrics listed information on solar wind dispersion alongside plasma wave probes, cometary ions, prestellar nebulae, interstellar matter and nucleosynthesis. (VOY: "Ashes to Ashes", okudagram)

Solar wind was one of the factors that Harry Kim compensated for when he extrapolated a more accurate course for the Friendship 1 probe in 2378. (VOY: "Friendship One")

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