Outer Space

By:
Arip Nurahman
Department of Physics
Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, Indonesia University of Education

and

Follower Open Course Ware at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, USA
Department of Physics
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http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/index.htm
&
Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering
http://web.mit.edu/aeroastro/www/
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/index.htm

From: Wikipedia

Outer space, often simply called space, comprises the relatively empty regions of the universe outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. Outer space is used to distinguish it from airspace (and terrestrial locations). Contrary to popular understanding, outer space is not completely empty (i.e. a perfect vacuum) but contains a low density of particles, predominantly hydrogen plasma, as well as electromagnetic radiation. Hypothetically, it also contains dark matter and dark energy.

The term "outer space" was first recorded by H. G. Wells in 1901. The shorter term space is actually older, being first used to mean the region beyond Earth's sky in John Milton's Paradise Lost in 1667.

Contents

• 1 Environment
• 2 Space versus orbit
• 3 Regions
  
  • 3.1 Geospace
  • 3.2 Interplanetary
  • 3.3 Interstellar
  • 3.4 Intergalactic
• 4 Milestones
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 External links

See also

Astronomy portal

Space portal

Space tourism portal

Spaceflight portal

• Astronaut Badge
• Extraterrestrial life
• Intergalactic space
• Interplanetary Internet
• Kármán line
• NASA
• Outer Space Treaty
• Private spaceflight
• Solar wind
• Space and survival
• Space colonization
• Space exploration
• Space science
• Space station
• Space technology
• Spaceflight
• Timeline of spaceflight

References

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