circumstellar

American  

[sur-kuhm-stel-er] / ˌsɜr kəmˈstɛl ər /

adjective

1. surrounding a star.

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Etymology

Origin of circumstellar

First recorded in 1950–55; circum- + stellar

Example Sentences

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, the team obtained images from such a nascent planetary system -- also known as a circumstellar disk -- in the process of actively dispersing its gas into surrounding space.

From Science Daily

This marks where the supernova blast wave is ramming into surrounding circumstellar material.

From Science Daily

The technique is especially sensitive to planets orbiting far from their stars—a circumstellar region that remains scarcely probed by other planet-hunting methods.

From Scientific American

Teams of astronomers were able to detect that circumstellar material for 2023ixf as the supernova expanded outward and crashed into it, producing a discernible shockwave.

From Scientific American

Protostars are often surrounded by circumstellar disks, vast ring-shaped accumulations of gas and dust that will eventually coalesce into planets and moons when the solar system reaches a later stage of evolution.

From Salon