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Loading contentThroughout their lives, and especially near the end, stars shed mass in winds — driven by radiation pressure on spectral lines in hot, luminous stars, and on dust grains in cool giants and supergiants. Mass loss reshapes a star's fate, stripping envelopes and returning enriched gas to the interstellar medium.
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