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Space
Science
Robert Lea

These 3 stars are losing weight fast — thanks to stellar winds way stronger than the sun's

A hazy view of space with oranges, reds and grays. There are a few sparkling stars speckled in the scene.

Astronomers have, for the first time, detected stellar winds blowing from three main-sequence stars similar to the sun. 

The observation helped determine the rates at which these stars lose mass via their stellar winds, finding these winds shrink about 67 times as fast as the sun loses mass via its own solar winds.

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