interstellar
adjective
in·ter·stel·lar
ˌin-tər-ˈste-lər 
: located, taking place, or traveling among the stars especially of the Milky Way galaxy
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The Trump administration proposes terminating the Juno mission, which is the only spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter, as well as the New Horizons probe that visited Pluto a decade ago and is now blazing a trail toward interstellar space.
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ArsTechnica, 11 June 2025
The next several thousand years will see the nebula disperse, according to NASA, as radiation pouring out from the central dying star pushes the material ever outward into interstellar space.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 2 June 2025
But the Voyager mission team left the others turned on to collect data about the heliosphere, as well as interstellar space.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Mar. 2025
Within 23 hours, the signals will be as far from Earth as NASA’s Voyager 1, the world’s most distant spacecraft at more than 15 billion miles in interstellar space.
—Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
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ArsTechnica, 11 June 2025
The next several thousand years will see the nebula disperse, according to NASA, as radiation pouring out from the central dying star pushes the material ever outward into interstellar space.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 2 June 2025
But the Voyager mission team left the others turned on to collect data about the heliosphere, as well as interstellar space.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Mar. 2025
Within 23 hours, the signals will be as far from Earth as NASA’s Voyager 1, the world’s most distant spacecraft at more than 15 billion miles in interstellar space.
—Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
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interstellar
adjective
in·ter·stel·lar
ˌint-ər-ˈstel-ər
: located or taking place among the stars
interstellar space
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