Examples of stellar wind in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Other black holes eat stars by feeding off a dense outflow of stellar wind. — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 7 May 2022 The stellar wind, at 670,000 miles per hour, is traveling 10 times faster than the outer nebula. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 May 2021 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 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 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 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 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 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 See More

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