How to Use interstellar in a Sentence
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The Guardians of the Galaxy have faced their fair share of interstellar threats over the years.
— Devan Coggan, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2022 -
By June 2020, the comet will be well past Jupiter and on its way back to interstellar space.
— Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Dec. 2019 -
This, in his view, opens up quite a can of interstellar worms.
— Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021 -
At the edges of the heliosphere is where the solar wind meets the interstellar wind.
— Jamie Carter, Forbes, 7 May 2022 -
Yes, but the transport costs from interstellar space seem a bit high.
— Michael Lynch, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022 -
New Horizons is on a course to interstellar space, much like the Voyager probes.
— Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 June 2020 -
Chris Hemsworth is back as the Norse god, this time in the midst of an interstellar identity crisis.
— Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 19 May 2022 -
Sometimes the band sounds like a jazz trio on some sort of interstellar vision quest.
— John Adamian, courant.com, 11 Oct. 2019 -
The record-setting spacecraft, which launched in 1977, is the first to edge into interstellar space.
— USA Today, 25 Dec. 2019 -
The cozy domed tents look like interstellar orbs placed throughout the landscape.
— Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2021 -
The script seems to know it and soon settles into a kind of grim grandeur, each turn a building block to nothing less than the interstellar fate of the free world.
— Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2021 -
March 28: The moon meets Mars The month ends with yet another interstellar hangout, this time between the moon and Mars.
— Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2023 -
Tens of thousands of suns can fit inside one of these interstellar clouds, the New York Times reports.
— Pete McBride, National Geographic, 17 June 2020 -
Or an interstellar academy for aliens to learn about the Earth.
— Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 5 Aug. 2022 -
The crew of an interstellar ship battles a malevolent force in this sci-fi thriller.
— Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2020 -
The researchers say that the existence of these building blocks of RNA shows that the chemistry could take place in the interstellar medium.
— Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 July 2022 -
What results is an amorphous shape formed by stars and wisps of interstellar gas.
— Shannon Stirone, WIRED, 5 May 2018 -
And in 1974, Dad used it to send an interstellar message to a clump of stars called the Great Cluster in the Hercules constellation.
— Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2020 -
And her path to fame was partially written in the same stars that birthed her interstellar being.
— Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2021 -
And scientists brought home an interstellar tune from the road.
— María Luisa Paúl, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2021 -
The transition from our solar system to interstellar space, the researchers say, may take less than a day to cross.
— Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2019 -
Now, his ships—interstellar emissaries of the human species—sail on without him.
— Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 12 June 2024 -
Genzel and Ghez spent many years poking into the cosmic cloud of interstellar gas and dust at the very center of the galaxy, with the world’s largest telescopes.
— Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2020 -
What if Borisov, as the interstellar visitor is known, represents the first example of a whole new way to make a comet?
— Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2020 -
More than four decades ago, traces of Ann Druyan blasted off our blue planet and toward interstellar space.
— Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2020 -
The cluster of stars is surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust — the raw materials for the creation of new stars, NASA said.
— Erin Kelly, USA TODAY, 4 July 2018 -
Shaped by its birth star's high-energy light and interstellar winds, the nebula rests about 650 light-years away from Earth.
— National Geographic, 20 Mar. 2018 -
In effect, we are all made of bits, so the argument goes, removable, deformable at the click of an interstellar mouse.
— Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 10 May 2018 -
In the novel, an astrophysicist, as an act of revenge for her father’s murder by Red Guards, chooses to put Earth at risk by sending out a provocative interstellar message to hostile aliens.
— H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 5 Nov. 2024 -
As for next steps, the team is hoping to model the exact position the sun held in the sky about seven million years ago, a time when other research has spotted another peak in the plutonium and iron isotopes associated with interstellar clouds.
— Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2024
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