How to Use exoplanet in a Sentence

exoplanet

noun

• The most Earth-size exoplanet found so far may be Kepler-1649c.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2021
• In some cases, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet could be brighter than its host star in the infrared part of the spectrum.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2022
• The spectrum of light that has passed through the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-96b shows that water is present there.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 July 2022
• The third theme calls for either a probe of the Milky Way or an exoplanet hunting telescope.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 11 June 2021
• This is the chief lesson of two decades of studying exoplanets.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Nov. 2019
• The first exoplanet discovered still holds the record for being the least massive.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2022
• The ultrahot gas giant exoplanet known as WASP-76b is where droplets of iron rain down from the sky at night.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Apr. 2021
• In the image of the exoplanet WASP-96b, water vapor was seen.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• The data for a giant exoplanet, called Wasp-96 b, flashed onto the screen.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2022
• In fact, the first exoplanet was discovered by the Very Large Telescope array in Chile in 2004.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023
• Kepler-16b was the first exoplanet found to circle a double star.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2021
• The hunt for exoplanets allows all of us to be scientists.
  — Swapna Krishna, WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
• What turned out to be hard for Venus will only be harder for exoplanets many light-years away.
  — Elise Cutts, WIRED, 7 Apr. 2024
• This giant exoplanet zips around the star remnant, which is about the size of Earth, in a very close orbit every 34 hours.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Sep. 2020
• The exoplanet, or planet outside of our solar system, is a gas giant about six to 12 times the mass of Jupiter.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Sep. 2022
• But a look at exoplanets suggests that this isn't an inevitable fate.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2023
• And clouds float within the hazy, hot atmosphere of a giant exoplanet more than 1,000 light-years away.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 July 2022
• An exoplanet is one that orbits around a star other than our Sun.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 11 June 2021
• The exoplanet is just 41 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Octans.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2023
• They'venow spotted an exoplanet about 8% larger than the size of Neptune in a quick orbit around AU Mic.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 June 2020
• KELT-9b is a rarity, even in its own class of exoplanets.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 Jan. 2020
• In these cases, the brightness of the full moon will depend on factors such as the size of the moon in the exoplanet’s night sky, its proximity to the host star, its reflectance and so on.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2022
• Indeed, not a single exoplanet has been found around a white dwarf using this method.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2022
• The astronomers estimate the exoplanet to be about the size of Saturn and orbit the neutron star or blackhole at about twice the distance of Saturn from the Sun.
  — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2021
• Reaching the nearest exoplanet would take tens of thousands of years.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2020
• The harsh exoplanet is home to clouds filled with tiny silicate particles, ranging in size from fine specks to grains.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2023
• The earlier discovery of an exoplanet inspired by Star Trek turned out to be a false alarm.
  — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 7 Mar. 2023
• An international team of astronomers has captured the telltale signs of the birth of an exoplanet for the first time.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2020
• Looking to the future, Fu said his research team will track sulfur in more exoplanets to analyze if the presence of high levels of the chemical compound is related to their placement in space.
  — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 9 July 2024
• The thought of such a discovery is what makes the detection of water vapor on some far-off exoplanet so exciting, especially when that world orbits within its star’s habitable zone, as Earth does.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 20 June 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024