The solar wind is made of protons, electrons, cosmic rays, all of these kinds of charged particles that could ionize the atmosphere, as we call, sputter it away.

太阳风是由质子，电子，宇宙射线组成，所有的带电粒子会电离大气层，就象我们说的那样，把它吹散。

The source of this X-ray burst was quickly determined to be a magnetar called SGR-1806-20, and the effects were incredible: it actually compressed the Earth's magnetic field, and partially ionized the Earth's upper atmosphere.

这次X射线爆发很快被确定为来源于一颗名为 SGR-1806-20 的磁星，其作用力令人难以置信：它实际上压缩了地球的磁场，并部分电离了地球的上层大气。