How to Use stellar wind in a Sentence

stellar wind

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• If the star was as active as our sun, its stellar wind would erode and sweep away the atmospheres of the planets.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 June 2020
• This stellar wind is responsible for stripping the stars to their cores, and in the process creates a halo of dust around the pair.
  — Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2020
• Other black holes eat stars by feeding off a dense outflow of stellar wind.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 7 May 2022
• The bow shock is formed by the collision of stellar wind with the planet's magnetosphere.
  — Samantha Mathewson, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2017
• As a result, the stellar winds of these first stars would have been less intense than today—and a weaker brake on star formation.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 28 Mar. 2023
• There are patterns and even borders created in this region, largely due to the stellar wind coming off of the stars.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Oct. 2019
• These heavy elements bubble up to the surface in large amounts, where vicious stellar winds rip them up and eject them into space.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2017
• The extreme mass ratio also makes the system blow off a lot of matter from the surfaces of the stars, a phenomenon that astronomers call stellar wind.
  — Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2020
• Theorists believe baby stars emit stellar winds: streams of particles that slow the process by blowing gas out of the galaxy.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 28 Mar. 2023
• Without a strong magnetic field, the stellar wind can’t extend as far, and the star essentially cuts the brakes on its rotation.
  — Zack Savitsky, Scientific American, 3 Jan. 2024
• Bad explanations That's strange, because the dust is formed when the material in the two stellar winds interact.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2018
• The atmospheric gas outflows are possibly shaped by stellar winds from Au Mic, which don’t allow all of the escaped gas to trail behind Au Mic b.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2023
• The planet’s proximity to its star enables the stellar wind to expel WASP-69b’s atmosphere.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
• Because of their powerful stellar winds, Wolf-Rayet stars usually lose a lot of their mass before expiring.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2023
• All stars generate their own stellar wind, or streams of gas blown out into space, but massive Wolf-Rayet stars can whip up winds into something more akin to a stellar hurricane.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022
• Over time, this material clumps together to form planets, or eventually gets blown away by the stellar wind.
  — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2019
• Such a planet would be buffeted by a stronger stellar wind—offering more electrons to be whipped up by the planet's magnetosphere into a signal that could be a million times stronger than Jupiter's.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 9 Oct. 2019
• The tendrils on the outer ring ironically look like comets but are actually caused when the hot, fast stellar wind from the central star caught up and collided with a slower, denser wind ejected earlier by the star.
  — Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2011
• Stars this massive typically lose their hydrogen to stellar winds long before beginning to pulsate in the run-up to their supernovae.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2020
• Powerful stellar winds can blow away around half of a carbon star's total mass, creating interstellar dust.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2018
• As the outer layers where hydrogen dwells are blown away in powerful stellar winds, these deeper, heavy materials are exposed and can then be shed as space dust, which then surrounds these massive stars.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2023
• By deflecting stellar wind, a magnetic field could also prevent the particles from scouring away a planet's life-nurturing atmosphere.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 9 Oct. 2019
• In 2016, astronomers discovered an Earth-mass planet around Proxima Centauri, but the planet, blasted by radiation and fierce stellar winds, seems unlikely to be habitable.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 11 Apr. 2018
• Another possibility is that stellar winds might be alternately boosting or blocking signals from a body behind them.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2020
• The pulsar at the nebula’s heart spins and sends out a powerful stellar wind, as well as generating powerful magnetic fields, which can accelerate these particles to high speeds, increasing their energy.
  — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2019
• But red dwarfs are harsh hosts, emitting frequent flares containing x-rays and ultraviolet radiation that could sterilize a planet, as well as energetic stellar winds that can strip it of its protective atmosphere.
  — Adam Mann, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024