outer space
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[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌaʊtə ˈspeɪs/, [ˌaʊ̯tə ˈspɛɪ̯s]
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌaʊtɚ ˈspeɪs/, [ˌaʊ̯ɾɚ ˈspeɪ̯s]
Audio (Canada): (file)
Noun
[edit]- A region outside of explored space.
- Any region of space beyond limits determined with reference to boundaries of a celestial system or body, especially the region of space immediately beyond Earth's atmosphere; sometimes, space beyond Earth's solar system.
- Synonyms: final frontier, high frontier, last frontier
- Astronauts train for years before traveling to outer space.
- The telescope captured incredible images from outer space.
- Science fiction often imagines alien civilizations in the depths of outer space.
- 2025 March 8, Miranda Bryant, quoting Tom Dans, “‘It’s very unpredictable’: divided Greenland prepares to vote amid Trump-inspired existential crisis”, in The Observer[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 March 2025:
- Dans added: “We talk about outer space and trips to Mars and then when you realise Nuuk is a three-hour flight from New York City, or thereabouts, it gets interesting.”
- A bluish shade of black.
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