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From just the perspective of "language" here, inter means between, and stellar refers to stars. We use the term interstellar space to talk about the space between stars, which leads to the statement that interstellar space is the space between stars in galaxies. And there's so darn much of that that we'd better take a closer look to lock in the idea.

We know that there are large distances between the planets in our solar system. Heck, it takes all day and then some to get from one to the other. Light itself takes about eight minutes to arrive at the earth from the sun. But the "largeness" of the space between the planets in our solar system might be due to "small thinkng" on our part. We know that the sun's light takes about eight minutes to get to earth, but the nearest star is so far away that it takes years for the light from it to get to earth!

Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to us (other than our sun) is about 4.2 light-years away! If we ball park the numbers, that's like a quarter of a million times as far as earth is from the sun! The space between the sun and Proxima Centauri is what we're talking about when we use the term interstellar space. There are vast "open" volumes of space between stars in galaxies. We might compare interstellar space to the space between galaxies, which is intergalactic space. And now we're talking reallylarge empty volumes of space and huge distances between the galactic objects!

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