INTERGALACTIC SPACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intergalactic space mean? 

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

1. the space between galaxies

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERGALACTIC SPACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The space between galaxies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

the Milky Way travels through intergalactic space

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

part; region (the extended spatial location of something)

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

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

 Context examples 

But it is a "gentle giant," say researchers, because it looks like it has been sitting quietly over billions of years, possibly sipping hydrogen from the filamentary structure of intergalactic space.

(Hubble Surveys Gigantic Galaxy, NASA)

The astronomy team captured data from these two galaxies as they were during a period of cosmic history known as the Epoch of Reionization, when most of intergalactic space was suffused with an obscuring fog of cold hydrogen gas.

(Massive primordial galaxies found in ‘halo’ of dark matter, National Science Foundation)

Besides being a classic example of a starburst galaxy, because it is forming an extraordinary number of new stars compared with most other galaxies, M82 also has strong winds blowing gas and dust into intergalactic space.

(Galactic Wind Provides Clues to Evolution of Galaxies, NASA)

It is likely that much of the Milky Way's matter was in other galaxies before it was kicked out by a powerful wind, traveled across intergalactic space and eventually found its new home in the Milky Way.

(Half Our Body's Atoms Could Have Come from Outside The Galaxy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Now, data from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, have been used to study this galaxy in greater detail, revealing how material that affects the evolution of galaxies may get into intergalactic space.

(Galactic Wind Provides Clues to Evolution of Galaxies, NASA)