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2 unusual facts about stellar wind


Jack Goldsmith

That day Ashcroft had ruled that Bush's domestic intelligence program, Stellar Wind, was illegal.

Stellar Wind

In June 2013 the Washington Post and the Guardian published an OIG draft report, dated March 2009, leaked by Edward Snowden detailing the Stellar Wind program.


Raman Prinja

Current projects aim to investigate the nature of mass-loss via stellar winds in a broad range of astrophysical settings, including: the structure of fast outflows from the central stars of planetary nebulae, mass-loss, clumping and the origin of structure in the winds of luminous OB stars, accretion-disc outflows in cataclysmic variables and, the origin and nature of mass outflows from young classical T Tauri stars.


see also

Alpha Camelopardalis

Runaway stars such as this with a stellar wind that is moving at supersonic velocity through the interstellar medium have their wind confined by a bow shock due to ram pressure.

Faint young Sun paradox

Observations of the young Sun-like star