Definition of stellar wind
: plasma continuously ejected from a star's surface into surrounding space
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Powerful stellar winds can blow away around half of a carbon star's total mass, creating interstellar dust.
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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.
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These heavy elements bubble up to the surface in large amounts, where vicious stellar winds rip them up and eject them into space.
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The bow shock is formed by the collision of stellar wind with the planet's magnetosphere.
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First Known Use of stellar wind
1965
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