Schematic of solar wind charge exchange events. (IMAGE)

Tokyo Metropolitan University

Schematic of solar wind charge exchange events.

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Charged particles from the sun coming towards earth interact with the geocorona, a wide cloud of hydrogen atoms extending into space from the Earth. Charge is transferred to the hydrogen atoms, and soft X-rays are emitted.

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