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Definition of Interstellar medium
1. Noun. Interstellar space including streams of protons moving from the stars.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Interstellar Medium
Literary usage of Interstellar medium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Exploring Organic Environments in the Solar System by National Research Council (U.S.) (2007)
"Interstellar Chemistry THE interstellar medium Inventory of Organic Compounds in
the interstellar medium Some 20 to 30 percent of the mass of our galaxy is ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The concluding chapters, section 5, deal with problems of the evolution of the
interstellar medium. This is a subject on which ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1853)
"If this be the case, the interstellar medium must be incapable of acquiring any
temperature whatever ; and all heat which arrives in the ..."
4. Priorities in Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power And Propulsion by Ssb (2006)
"The solar wind continually rams into the local interstellar medium, and through
complex interactions forms the large-scale outer boundaries of our solar ..."
5. Plasma Physics Of The Local Cosmos by National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Solar and Space Physics (2004)
"The detailed interaction between the local interstellar medium (LISM) and the
solar wind is not well understood, in part because many of the pertinent ..."
6. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1897)
"Nevertheless, this value can be regarded as an approximate measure for the density
of the interstellar medium. We can also assume that the matter of bodies ..."
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