stellar wind

noun

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

Examples of stellar wind in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

This original image, along with several follow-up observations, provide detailed snapshots of star formation in action, allowing astronomers to study how stellar winds and radiation from newborn stars sculpt these pillars, influencing the birth — and suppression — of future stars. —Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2025

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

Word History

First Known Use

1965, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for stellar wind

• underpinned
• chagrined
• crosswind
• downwind
• rescind
• upwind
• whirlwind
• woodwind
• finned
• ginned
• grinned
• pinned