the source of the solar wind

Hi, we are Jude and Lucy. Our particular interest is not so much in the Sun itself, but in what comes from it - the so-called solar wind

The material blowing away from the Sun is what we call the ‘solar wind’...

No! there's no need to worry - even at that rate the Sun could keep on shinning for about another 300 thousand billion years!

		(Don’t forget! A tonne is 1000 kg)

This is an X-ray picture of the Sun. It shows the very hot plasma in the Sun's atmosphere, which we call the corona. Did you notice the big dark region? That is where the solar wind originates.				We know that the solar wind originates from the dark areas we call coronal holes