interstellar

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IBEX is using energetic neutral atom (ENA) imaging to create the first global maps of interactions between the million mile-per-hour solar wind blown out in all directions by the Sun and the low-density material between the stars, known as the interstellar medium.

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  1. adjective Between or among the stars: interstellar gases.

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  • They turned their backs on the past Then, rumors began of something strange approaching across the cold interstellar wastes ... a new force, spreading outwards like ripples in a pond. —  Magazine - Analog Science Fiction and Fact - 2007 - Issue 04 - April
  • I'm kinda busy here Your boyfriend's being interviewed on interstellar, and Jake the Jerk's got him Really Jennie decided the notes could wait a little longer and joined the small cluster of newsroom staff crowding around the monitor bank. —  Phule's Paradise by Robert Asprin
  • "The ship is now interstellar," said a voice from the panel as the last note died away. —  Analog May, 1971
  • "We will dance for you," the Marseein promised five years ago, as their interstellar trash-heap decelerated toward us. —  Aeon Five
  • One salvo attacked every large--interstellar-capable--antenna ever observed on Victorious . —  Analog SFF, September 2006
 

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  1. from Latin inter, between, + stella, star: see stella.
 

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/ɪntərˈstɛlər/
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