stellar wind

noun

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

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Hot, energetic and formed in great numbers, the stars unleash an onslaught of ultraviolet light and stellar winds that sculpt the gas clouds around them. Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2025 In fact, tremendous stellar wind currents from several stars can collide to cause a perfect cosmic storm, resulting in complete celestial chaos! Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 16 Feb. 2025 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 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 4 May. 2025.

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