Radiation pressure

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What Wikipedia says

Radiation pressure (also known as light pressure) is mechanical pressure exerted upon a surface due to the exchange of momentum between the object and the electromagnetic field.

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Image: NASA Ames Research Center / NASA/Aero Animation/Ben Schweighart, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.