interstellar space

1. See under space

Example Sentences

The telescope, with its fellow Maunakea resident the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, discovered that Earth is basking in light from excited molecules living quietly in interstellar space.

From Los Angeles Times

Voyager 1 exited the heliosphere in 2012, the first earthly object to reach interstellar space.

From Science Magazine

Somewhere in the cold interstellar space between our sun and the closest stars, its flight data system stopped communicating with the part of the probe that allows it to send signals back to Earth.

From Los Angeles Times

Such misbehaving molecules can appear in interstellar space.

From New York Times

By examining infrared light -- wavelengths invisible to the naked eye -- these incredibly precise images reveal how dust fertilizes the universe after being heated by both massive young stars and surrounding interstellar space radiation.

From Science Daily

Related Words

• cosmos