DEEP SPACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deep space mean? 

• DEEP SPACE (noun)
  The noun DEEP SPACE has 1 sense:

1. any region in space outside the solar system

  Familiarity information: DEEP SPACE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEEP SPACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any region in space outside the solar system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("deep space" is a kind of...):

part; region (the extended spatial location of something)

Holonyms ("deep space" is a part of...):

outer space; space (any location outside the Earth's atmosphere)

 Context examples 

Space is filled with radiation from nearby stars as well as from violent events in deep space like exploding stars and black holes devouring matter.

(Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Earth by meteorites, NASA)

Scientists with Breakthrough Listen say they’ve found 15 fast radio bursts, or FRBs, from a deep space “repeater” called FRB 121102.

(Mysterious Radio Signals Detected from Deep Space, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Mars is the timekeeper of the zodiac and, as he orbits in deep space, will align with Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto and unlock their gifts.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The findings will help scientists understand the history of lunar water — a potential resource for sustaining long term operations on the Moon and human exploration of deep space.

(Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water From Moon, NASA)

They are the first CubeSats sent into deep space.

(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)

Warming up for a possible extended mission as it speeds through deep space, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has now twice observed 1994 JR1, a 90-mile-wide (145-kilometer-wide) Kuiper Belt object (KBO) orbiting more than 3 billion miles (5 billion kilometers) from the sun.

(New Horizons Collects First Science on a Post-Pluto Object, NASA)

When these small, natural remnants of the formation of the solar system pass relatively close to Earth, deep space radar is a powerful technique for studying their sizes, shapes, rotation, surface features and roughness, and for more precise determination of their orbital path.

(Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on Sept. 1, NASA)

Meteoroid impacts are common in the deep space neighborhood of Bennu, and it is possible that these small fragments of space rock could be hitting Bennu where OSIRIS-REx is not observing it, shaking loose particles with the momentum of their impact.

(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)

The planets in their respective orbits through deep space will be in perfect harmony on Valentine’s Day, February 14.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)