deep space
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6.4
- noun
- /dip speɪs/
- Specialized
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espacio profundo
- Astronomers have discovered galaxies in deep space that are billions of light-years away.
- deep space objects
- deep space mission
Do you hope to go out to ISS, out to deep space one day?
- Do you hope to go out to ISS, out to deep space one day?
- There are small numbers of systems that have been maintained for long time, for example deep space probes.
- You know, here we are launching into space, deep space to look at planets.
- They're talking about referencing a in Hawaii that does deep space tracking.
Examples
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Scientists are developing new technologies to explore deep space beyond our solar system.
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Others might make ideal gas stations for ships headed to deep space, or even host entire human colonies.
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We can look into deep space and get so much information just from the light.
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Six months in deep space.
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But we did get a lead from the deep space photographs.
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A message of unknown origin from deep space... ... was received by American scientists.
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In fact, the idea of six months alone in deep space was frightening.
Fiction book (1992) -
Men did indeed walk on the moon and on Mars and sent probes into deep space.
Fiction book (1999) -
And so at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space.
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But not all cosmic rays originate from deep space; some originate from our own Sun.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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6.0
The space between stars that contains gas, dust, and small particles
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7.5
The area between separate galaxies in the universe
How Far
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91
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is directly compositional: 'deep' (far/extensive) combined with 'space' (the cosmos) yields the sense of very distant or extensive regions of outer space. This follows a common adjective+noun pattern that is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Deep space uses the picture of very deep emptiness out in space, like a dark sea far from Earth, to show great distance. That's why it means the parts of space 'beyond our solar system'.