A continuous flow of charged particles from a star.
〔天文〕恒星风
Example sentencesExamples
They are characterised by high masses, strong stellar winds, and accreting material from the companion star leading to a ‘cocoon’ around the compact source.
But if a breeze blows through it - say, a stellar wind from a giant star nearby - the gas is driven outward.
Such a massive star has strong stellar winds that can clear away the gas around it and form a wind-blown bubble.
The dust needed help coming together fast, in kilometer-wide protoplanets, in the first few million years after a star was born, or the stellar wind would blow it all away.
An aging star sheds its outer layers of gas through stellar winds.
Definition of stellar wind in US English:
stellar wind
nounˌstelər ˈwind
Astronomy
A continuous flow of charged particles from a star.
〔天文〕恒星风
Example sentencesExamples
They are characterised by high masses, strong stellar winds, and accreting material from the companion star leading to a ‘cocoon’ around the compact source.
The dust needed help coming together fast, in kilometer-wide protoplanets, in the first few million years after a star was born, or the stellar wind would blow it all away.
But if a breeze blows through it - say, a stellar wind from a giant star nearby - the gas is driven outward.
Such a massive star has strong stellar winds that can clear away the gas around it and form a wind-blown bubble.
An aging star sheds its outer layers of gas through stellar winds.