What is "deep space"

Space \Space\ (sp[=a]s), n. [OE. space, F. espace, from L. spatium space; cf. Gr. spa^n to draw, to tear; perh. akin to E. span. Cf. Expatiate.]

1. Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.

   Pure space is capable neither of resistance nor motion.
   --Locke.

2. Place, having more or less extension; room.

   They gave him chase, and hunted him as hare; Long had he no space to dwell [in].
   --R. of Brunne.

   While I have time and space.
   --Chaucer.

3. A quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile.

   Put a space betwixt drove and drove.
   --Gen. xxxii. 16.

4. Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time. ``Grace God gave him here, this land to keep long space.''
   --R. of brunne.

   Nine times the space that measures day and night.
   --Milton.

   God may defer his judgments for a time, and give a people a longer space of repentance.
   --Tillotson.

5. A short time; a while. [R.] ``To stay your deadly strife a space.''
   --Spenser.

6. Walk; track; path; course. [Obs.]

   This ilke [same] monk let old things pace, And held after the new world the space.
   --Chaucer.

7. (Print.)

   1. A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters.

   2. The distance or interval between words or letters in the lines, or between lines, as in books, on a computer screen, etc.

      Note: Spaces are of different thicknesses to enable the compositor to arrange the words at equal distances from each other in the same line.

8. (Mus.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff.

9. that portion of the universe outside the earth or its atmosphere; -- called also outer space.

   Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc.

   deep space, the part of outer space which is beyond the limits of the solar system.

   Space line (Print.), a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance from each other, and for other purposes; a lead.
   --Hansard.

   Space rule (Print.), a fine, thin, short metal rule of the same height as the type, used in printing short lines in tabular matter.

a. Of or in the area of space beyond the gravitational influence of Earth, or outside the Solar System n. All of space beyond the gravitational influence of Earth, or outside the Solar System

n. any region in space outside the solar system

Deep Space may refer to:

Deep Space is a collection of science-fiction short stories by the British writer Eric Frank Russell. It was first published by Fantasy Press in 1954 in an edition of 2,257 copies. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Thrilling Wonder Stories, Other Worlds, Astounding, Galaxy Science Fiction, Imagination and Bluebook.

Deep Space is a 1988 sci-fi horror film directed by Fred Olen Ray about a monster that terrorizes a city in the United States and the detective who must stop it.

Deep Space is an EP of the band Eisley, released on February 14, 2012 on Equal Vision Records. Originally the EP was going to contain a few b-sides from The Valley, but the band ultimately decided to record mostly new songs and changed the way of the EP as an anticipation of their fourth full-length album. The song "192 Days" had previously been released in demo form on the band's EP Fire Kite in 2009.