stellar wind

noun

: plasma continuously ejected from a star's surface into surrounding space

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The churning of the disk or intense stellar winds from the growing protostar may help the grains accumulate there. Lee Billings, Scientific American, 15 July 2025 That indicates the presence of more cold gas that could go on to form more stars or could be driven out of these galaxies by the powerful stellar winds of infant stars. Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 July 2025 But strong stellar winds may be key to allowing this situation to develop. Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 July 2025 Typically, this rapid stream of particles astronomers call stellar wind should blow off from the white dwarf as a by-product of the star’s fast spinning right after the supernova explosion. Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 13 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for stellar wind

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First Known Use

1965, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of stellar wind was in 1965

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“Stellar wind.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stellar%20wind. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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