stellar wind

noun

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

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Dying stars exhale hot stellar winds; any carbon swept up in these winds essentially burns up, producing stellar soot. Elise Cutts, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2024 The intense radiation from the star – the stellar wind – is not only boiling off the planet’s atmosphere, but also sweeping it into a long stream like a comet’s tail. New Atlas, 21 Dec. 2024 Learning about stellar wind could tell researchers more about the habitability of exoplanets. Yeimy J. Rivera, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024 The wispy brown filaments surrounding the central starburst region are bubbles of gas that have been heated by stellar winds and intense ultraviolet radiation unleashed by hot, young stars. Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 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 19 Jan. 2025.

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