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To-do list for Outer space: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2024-03-06 There are no active tasks for this page Act on consensus regarding Regions in the vicinity of Earth (— 𝐬𝐝𝐒𝐝𝐬 — - talk) 02:20, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Earth centric description in inaccurate/inappropriate

Describing space as what is "beyond Earth's atmosphere" is the stuff that pre-school classes are made of. The more accurate and appropriate description is "Space is the expanse that exists between celestial bodies." This inherently includes Earth, among them, and rightly recognizes that, for purposes of identifying space versus non-space, a planetary atmosphere is part of the planet itself. The current flawed description immediately would suggest the atmospheres of other planets are part of space. In the case of a planet like Jupiter, that can then morph into existential questions about whether the majority of Jupiter's mass is actually in space as opposed to being part of the planet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:4040:B07B:9700:311C:DC51:539F:D8C1 (talk) 17:15, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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SpaceIzAlwaysCool (talk) 02:26, 1 May 2025 (UTC) There is more stars of space than grains of sand on beaches[reply]

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Cannolis (talk) 07:32, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The statement is true and is mentioned on the star article, but it is unclear what that has to do with outer space. Praemonitus (talk) 14:01, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Contradiction

The article currently defines interplanetary space as "the space dominated by the gravitation of the Sun", but interstellar space as " the physical space outside of the bubbles of plasma known as astrospheres, formed by stellar winds originating from individual stars, or formed by solar wind emanating from the Sun." The gravitational influence of the Sun extends hundreds of times farther out than the heliosphere. So which is it? The region of the heliosphere, or the region of the Sun's gravitational influence? Serendi^podous 11:51, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. The first can be corrected by removing "the space", so it then matches the reference. I went ahead and made the change. Thanks. Praemonitus (talk) 13:44, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 17 June 2025

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In the section "Human access", subsection "Effect on biology and human bodies", the second sentence reads, "Species of lichen carried on the ESA BIOPAN facility survived exposure for ten days in 2007.". I simply request that the term "lichen" be hyperlinked to its respective Wikipedia page available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichen

I know that this is a VERY minor change, but I, at least, would appreciate the addition/modification. Thanks for the consideration! Dylanbeetcher (talk) 00:31, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done M.Bitton (talk) 00:51, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]