: plasma continuously ejected from a star's surface into surrounding space
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By tracking how stellar winds bend the jets in Cygnus X-1, the new method effectively allows astronomers to measure jet power live.—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026 The group based its calculations on how much the jets were bent by the stellar wind as well as computer modeling.—Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026 Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the European VLBI Network (EVN), Prabu and his colleagues were able to reconstruct high-resolution images of the jets over time, watching as they were buffeted to and fro by intense stellar winds from the nearby star.—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2026 Brecher's image reveals the 30-light-year-wide emission nebula NGC 2359, whose bubble-like form was sculpted by the stellar wind blasting out from the colossal Wolf-Rayet star at its heart.—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 23 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for stellar wind