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 2 crossed the border to interstellar space in 2018.

From New York Times

Since the problem surfaced in November, engineers had been working to diagnose and resolve the issue, a tedious and lengthy process complicated by the fact that it takes almost two days to send and receive information from Voyager 1, which was the first man-made object ever to enter interstellar space and is currently more than 15 billion miles from Earth.

From New York Times

In 2012, the probe became the first to cross into interstellar space and had since, along with its twin, which followed six years later, collected data about the heliosphere, the space around the sun directly under the sun’s influence.

From New York Times

Prior to the interruption, Voyager 1 had been traversing a mysterious new region of interstellar space—perhaps an enormous swell of pressure or a cloud of ancient plasma—and scientists are eager to resume the investigation.

From Science Magazine

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