How to Use stellar wind in a Sentence

stellar wind

noun
  • His model assumes that more dust used to be blown away by stellar winds.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Other black holes eat stars by feeding off a dense outflow of stellar wind.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 7 May 2022
  • At the same time, however, the aging sun will lose enormous amounts of mass through stellar winds.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 20 June 2026
  • 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
  • Evolution at that stage occurs with heavy mass loss in the form of stellar winds and super winds, says Sion.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The bow shock is formed by the collision of stellar wind with the planet's magnetosphere.
    — Samantha Mathewson, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2017
  • These heavy elements bubble up to the surface in large amounts, where vicious stellar winds rip them up and eject them into space.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Many other stars have stellar winds that carry their material out into space.
    — Yeimy J. Rivera, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024
  • As a result, the stellar winds of these first stars would have been less intense than today—and a weaker brake on star formation.
    — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The group based its calculations on how much the jets were bent by the stellar wind as well as computer modeling.
    — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
  • There are patterns and even borders created in this region, largely due to the stellar wind coming off of the stars.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Over its lifetime, powerful stellar winds stripped away much of its material.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Streamers of gas can be spotted exiting the nebula, blown off by intense stellar winds.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The star produces x-rays as its stellar wind hits the cooler interstellar medium surrounding the star.
    — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Livingston's team even looked for the spectral features of these outflows from the planets, but their signal is overpowered by the strong stellar winds.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Without a strong magnetic field, the stellar wind can’t extend as far, and the star essentially cuts the brakes on its rotation.
    — Zack Savitsky, Scientific American, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The star continuously sheds gas through strong stellar winds, and the black hole pulls in some of that material through its gravity.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026
  • Over time, this material clumps together to form planets, or eventually gets blown away by the stellar wind.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2019
  • 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
  • Powerful stellar winds can blow away around half of a carbon star's total mass, creating interstellar dust.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2018
  • The extreme mass ratio also makes the system blow off a lot of matter from the surfaces of the stars, a phenomenon that astronomers call stellar wind.
    — Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2020
  • At closest approach, their stellar winds collide, producing dense, carbon-rich dust that forms a spiral shape over the course of 25 years each time.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 20 Nov. 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
  • Bad explanations That's strange, because the dust is formed when the material in the two stellar winds interact.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2018
  • Because of their powerful stellar winds, Wolf-Rayet stars usually lose a lot of their mass before expiring.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Learning about stellar wind could tell researchers more about the habitability of exoplanets.
    — Yeimy J. Rivera, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024
  • These massive stars have shed their hydrogen envelopes and unleash fierce stellar winds, influencing their dusty surroundings.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Consequently, the atmosphere on each world is inevitably being stripped into space by the stellar wind of radiation.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • 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

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