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Outer space   /ˈaʊtər speɪs/   Listen
Outer space

noun
1.
Any location outside the Earth's atmosphere.  Synonym: space.  "The first major milestone in space exploration was in 1957, when the USSR's Sputnik 1 orbited the Earth"






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"Outer space" Quotes from Famous Books



... this force," she said, when he had finished, "it will drag us millions—perhaps millions of millions—of miles away from our own system into outer space, and we shall either fall on the surface of this dead sun and be reduced to a puff of lighted gas in an instant, or some other body will pull us away from it, and then another away from that, and so on, and we shall wander among the ...
— A Honeymoon in Space • George Griffith

... deliverance. It was a face of power, a face, he now realised, of simple goodness such as might have been seen by men of old on the shores of Galilee; a face, by heaven, that could conquer even the devils of outer space. ...
— Three More John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood

... are," she said. "How can I know what the ends of the Institute are when they're using such means as you? Mutant or android or"—she caught her breath—"or actually a creature from outer space, the stars. Simon ...
— The Sensitive Man • Poul William Anderson

... come from outer space. They're meteorites, which are rock fragments. Every day, hundreds of millions of them enter the earth's atmosphere. Most of them, however, are burned up by the heat from air friction and never reach ...
— Let's collect rocks & shells • Shell Oil Company

... limp and twisted body of the cat, had died long before his hands had crushed it in their mighty grip. For the essence of that life, that animal existence, had been merged with him, fused by a mighty source from outer space. ...
— The Monster • S. M. Tenneshaw



Words linked to "Outer space" :   infinite, aerospace, intergalactic space, location, interplanetary space, interstellar space, space, deep space



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