extrasolar planet
noun
extrasolar planets
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pluralof extrasolar planet.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"The variability of extrasolar planets is just enormous," Muñoz said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025
Webb will study a number of astronomical objects, including the most distant galaxies in the Universe, the atmospheres of extrasolar planets and stellar nurseries shrouded in dust.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 25, 2022
Line and mean opacities for ultracool dwarfs and extrasolar planets.
From Nature ● May 6, 2018
Since 1995, when astronomers discovered the first planet orbiting a star other than our sun, more than thirty-five hundred extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, have come to light.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 24, 2016
The first extrasolar planets, as they had been discovered, had been named from Norse mythology--Odin and Baldur and Thor, Uller and Freya, Bifrost and Asgard and Niflheim.
From Graveyard of Dreams by H. Beam Piper
