: located, taking place, or traveling among the stars especially of the Milky Way galaxy
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And the interstellar dust hasn't yet settled into a definitive yea or nay on Kepler-452b's realness.
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The current in this loop (which would circulate indefinitely, because a superconductor has no resistance) would create a magnetic field that gradually transferred the craft’s kinetic energy to hydrogen atoms in the interstellar medium.
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The group uses plans for interstellar travel as a means to stretch thinking into the unknown — trying to figure what transportation, clothing, agriculture and even human behavior is needed to fly to destinations light years away.
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Another possibility is that interstellar winds collected enough material to help the low-mass galaxy to coalesce.
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Close binary star systems may be the source of the majority of interstellar objects out there, both icy comets and rocky asteroids, according to the researchers.
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Planet Nine also aligns with an emerging awareness that the solar system’s early days were a chaotic mess, in which the early formation of Jupiter and Saturn scattered smaller and more embryonic worlds into the sun or the interstellar void.
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Hawking’s views aren’t shared in full by his scientific peers, many of whom emphasize the sheer difficulty of interstellar space travel—and the fact that human radio transmissions have long leaked from Earth, sending a beacon to anyone out there.
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Recent discoveries in interstellar space may be providing some support for this.
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: existing or taking place among the stars
- interstellar gases
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