A bow shock is a shockwave that forms when fast-moving solar wind abruptly slows down and heats up as it encounters Earth’s magnetosphere. It is called a bow shock because it resembles the wave ...

The sun is about to enter the Northern Hemisphere, which means some stunning auroras may be visible in the coming weeks. At ...

solar wind, bow shock, magnetosheath, magnetosphere, magnetotail, radiation belts, ring currents, and upper ionosphere. Among space plasma physics theories, single particle theory and ...

When the solar wind hits the magnetosphere, it slows down and transfers its energy into a shock wave. The region where this transfer happens is known as the bow shock and its leading area is ...

Regions in space to be discussed include the solar surface, solar wind, bow shock, magnetosheath, magnetosphere, magnetotail, radiation belts, ring currents, and the ionosphere. Among space plasma ...