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Noun: interplanetary gas
  1. A rarefied flow of gas and charged particles (plasma) that stream from the sun and form the solar wind
    "The spacecraft's instruments detected changes in the interplanetary gas as it approached Mars"

Derived forms: interplanetary gases

Type of: plasma

Part of: interplanetary medium, solar wind