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clouds of particles or gases occurring throughout interstellar space

clouds of particles or gases occurring throughout interstellar space

Finely divided solid matter with particle sizes smaller than a micrometeorite, thus with diameters much smaller than a millimeter, moving in interplanetary space. (NASA Thesaurus, 1994)

Dust floating in the atmosphere and space, supposed to be derived from extraterrestrial sources, such as meteors.