KnowraCircumgalactic mediumLinked fromLinked fromThe 9 pages that link to Circumgalactic medium, each with the reason it gives.All 9Broader topic 2Related 2Narrower topic 1Compared with 4Interstellar mediumCompared with: It exchanges gas with the interstellar medium but occupies the galaxy’s extended halo.Intracluster mediumCompared with: It is associated with individual galaxies, unlike the cluster-wide plasma between them.Intergalactic mediumCompared with: It occupies the boundary between a galaxy and the wider intergalactic environment.Warm–hot intergalactic mediumCompared with: Its boundary with intergalactic gas complicates estimates of how much matter lies in each reservoir.