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#128625 05/16/04 09:09 PM
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What's a word for "The gaps between the stars" or "The darkness between the stars"? It's OK if the word is obsolete or someone's name and not technically a word.


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starspace
stargap
skygap
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Interstellar void?


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In one of the several Eucharistic prayers in the 1979 American Book of Common Prayer, the following language appears: "At your command all things came to be: the vast expanse of interstellar space, galaxies, suns, the planets in their courses, and this fragile earth, our island home."

I'm thinkin' that "the vast expanse of interstellar space" does, in a phrase, what you seek from a single word, eh?




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Then there's always the celestial dome, the matrix in which it was thought the stars were set.


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space?

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The void is a term I see frequently in SF novels.



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... and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;

Alternatively, it's the Cosmic Microwave Background, which comes from all directions in space except where the brighter light from a star outpowers it.

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I think Cap and TEd are on it: the interstellar void, or just The Void.


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Or maybe just "The Expanse."

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