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I heard someone from the Voyager team talk about collecting data on charged particles coming off of the Sun and how they start supersonic but then become subsonic. What does it mean for something to be super- or sub-sonic in a medium with such low density?

by /u/T2QTIW31hmtGbNsq in /r/askscience

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