interstellar space


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Related to interstellar space: intergalactic space, Interstellar space travel
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Noun1.interstellar space - the space between stars
outer space, space - any location outside the Earth's atmosphere; "the astronauts walked in outer space without a tether"; "the first major milestone in space exploration was in 1957, when the USSR's Sputnik 1 orbited the Earth"
region, part - the extended spatial location of something; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space"
interstellar medium - interstellar space including streams of protons moving from the stars
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John Barleycorn sends his White Logic, the argent messenger of truth beyond truth, the antithesis of life, cruel and bleak as interstellar space, pulseless and frozen as absolute zero, dazzling with the frost of irrefragable logic and unforgettable fact.
The rest was as the darkness of interstellar space.
As NASA spots more of these objects, the (https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/881/10-things-going-interstellar/) journey into interstellar space , which refers to the space between stars, has also started.
Journey from the sun, explore all the planets, zip past asteroids and then fly through the Kuiper belt to look out on interstellar space! Young readers can then unfold their own glow-in-the-dark poster.
NASA researchers at the Ames' Astrophysics and Astrochemistry Lab in Mountain View, California have provided the first experimental evidence demonstrating that the sugar in DNA - 2- deoxyribose - can be formed in interstellar space. In their study, Michel Nuevo, George Cooper, and Scott Sandford combined organic compounds, water vapor, and light - all elements present in interstellar space - inside a vacuum chamber mimicking the cosmic environment and observed the results.
In their study, Michel Nuevo, George Cooper, and Scott Sandford combined organic compounds, water vapor, and light ndash all elements present in interstellar space ndash inside a vacuum chamber mimicking the cosmic environment and observed the results.
Summary: Passage into interstellar space is yielding new clues to how the sun affects space
It is trailing twin Voyager 1, which reached interstellar space in 2012 and is 13 billion miles from Earth.
Voyager 2, a NASAprobe launched in 1977 and designed for just a five-year mission, has become only the second human-made object to enter interstellar space as it continues its marathon trek billions of miles (km) from Earth, scientists said on Monday.
11 -- NASA's Voyager 2 probe has finally made it to the interstellar space and is now the second human-made object to reach the space between the stars.
In 1974, after the first discovery of complex organic molecules and polymeric dust in interstellar space, they began to speculate that life arrived on Earth from elsewhere in the universe, and over the years added more evidence until the speculation transformed into a serious scientific theory that could be verified or falsified.