INTERSTELLAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interstellar mean? 

• INTERSTELLAR (adjective)
  The adjective INTERSTELLAR has 1 sense:

1. between or among stars

  Familiarity information: INTERSTELLAR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERSTELLAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Between or among stars

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

the density of hydrogen in interplanetary and interstellar space

Pertainym:

star ((astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior)

 Context examples 

We cannot see much of it because of interstellar gases and occluding stars.

(Researchers Estimate Mass of Milky Way to Be 3.9 Tredecillion Pounds, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The so-called "rogue" planet does not revolve around a star, but instead rotates around the galactic center in interstellar space.

(Astronomers Discover New Planet Not Orbiting Any Star, VOA)

The interstellar gas cannot be observed directly, as its radiation signature is overwhelmed by the accretion disk’s brightness.

(Astronomers Study How Quasars Are Powered by Accretion Disks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Optical and radio astronomers looked carefully for interstellar gas in our part of the galaxy, but couldn't find much in Earth's neighborhood.

(Evidence for supernovas near Earth, NASA)

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a new "tsunami wave" from the sun as it sails through interstellar space.

(Sun sends more 'tsunami waves' to Voyager 1, NASA)

Interstellar space is mostly a vacuum, so there is no medium that can carry sound. In other words, space is totally silent.

(Does Our Galaxy Sound Like Funky Blues Music?, George Putic/VOA)

The high velocity indicates not only that the object likely originated from outside our solar system, but also that it will leave and head back to interstellar space.

(Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor, NASA)

New stars and planetary systems arise in cloud-like regions of gas and dust in between stars, making these interstellar clouds the ideal places to start the search for life’s building blocks.

(Astronomers Reveal Interstellar Thread of One of Life’s Building Blocks, ESO)

This cavity is expanding, causing the interstellar material to pile up and create the reddish arc-shaped border.

(Stellar Nursery Blooms into View, ESO)

A survey of more than 170,000 supermassive black holes, using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), has astronomers reexamining a decades-old theory about the varying appearances of these interstellar objects.

(NASA's WISE findings poke hole in black hole 'Doughnut' theory, NASA)