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INTERSTELLAR
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Between or among stars
Example:
the density of hydrogen in interplanetary and interstellar space
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
star ((astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior)
Context examples:
This may be due to the motion of the host star plowing through the interstellar medium, like the bow wave from a boat crossing a lake.
(Hubble Finds Huge System of Dusty Material Enveloping the Young Star HR 4796A, NASA)
If so, it would be the first "interstellar object" to be observed and confirmed by astronomers.
(Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System, NASA)
The new ALMA observation is the first detection ever of a stable organohalogen in interstellar space.
(ALMA and Rosetta Detect Freon-40 in Space, ESO)
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)
This project is an attempt to measure galactic magnetic fields and learn how they influence the way that interstellar gases are ejected from galaxy disks and contribute to galaxy formation and evolution.
(Giant magnetic ropes seen in Whale Galaxy's halo, National Science Foundation)
Voyager 1, NASA's farthest and fastest spacecraft, is the only human-made object in interstellar space, the environment between the stars.
(Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years, NASA)
As the material is ejected, it is heated up and smashes into the surrounding interstellar medium.
(Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History, NASA)
The poem swung in majestic rhythm to the cool tumult of interstellar conflict, to the onset of starry hosts, to the impact of cold suns and the flaming up of nebulae in the darkened void; and through it all, unceasing and faint, like a silver shuttle, ran the frail, piping voice of man, a querulous chirp amid the screaming of planets and the crash of systems.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Astronomers are not sure whether they merely grazed each other or collided head-on, but either way it triggered a powerful eruption that launched other nearby protostars and hundreds of colossal streamers of gas and dust out into interstellar space at over 150 kilometres per second.
(ALMA Captures Dramatic Stellar Fireworks, ESO)
Researchers, for the first time, have observed the accelerated rate at which eight quasars consume interstellar fuel to feed their black holes.
(Astronomers Study How Quasars Are Powered by Accretion Disks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
