INTERSTELLAR SPACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interstellar space mean? 

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

1. the space between stars

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERSTELLAR SPACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The space between stars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

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

part; region (the extended spatial location of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "interstellar space"):

interstellar medium (interstellar space including streams of protons moving from the stars)

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

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

 Context examples 

Normally, interstellar space is like a quiet lake, but when our sun has a burst, it sends a shock wave outward that reaches Voyager about a year later.

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

Astronomers using ALMA and NOEMA have made the first definitive detection of a radioactive molecule in interstellar space.

(Stellar Corpse Reveals Origin of Radioactive Molecules, ESO)

Scientists conclude these specks of material came from interstellar space — the space between the stars.

(Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust, NASA)

The gravitational pull of these massive planets can fling objects out of their system and into interstellar space.

(New Study Shows What Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua Can Teach Us, NASA)

For the first time ever astronomers have studied an asteroid that has entered the Solar System from interstellar space.

(ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before, ESO)

In 2012, it became the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space.

(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)

Powerful winds of gas streaming from the surface of these stars are carrying some of their outer layers into interstellar space.

(Scientists Take Viewers to the Center of the Milky Way, NASA)

NASA's Voyager 2 probe, currently on a journey toward interstellar space, has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system.

(NASA Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space, NASA)

Six known objects in the distant Kuiper Belt, a region of icy bodies stretching from Neptune outward toward interstellar space, all have elliptical orbits pointing in the same direction.

(The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner, NASA)

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)