: plasma continuously ejected from a star's surface into surrounding space
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But Cunningham says that, against expectations, these stellar winds seem not to be significantly sculpting the filaments.—Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024 His model assumes that more dust used to be blown away by stellar winds.—Rebecca Boyle, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024 Around the Dolphin Head Nebula, stellar winds, or gas ejected from the star’s upper atmosphere, can reach over 3.3 million miles per hour, making the region lively.—Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024 Convection is also the likely instigator of stellar winds, or rapid winds that can whisk elements made by the star into space to help create new stars and planets.—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for stellar wind
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