How to Use solar system in a Sentence

solar system

noun

• Look to the east at nightfall to spot Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
• Hanging on the wall of his bedroom is a poster of the solar system.
  — Clint Smith, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2022
• But the lights quickly blink on again, as the solar system takes over.
  — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021
• Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system and the closest to the sun.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
• Here’s where the flatness of our solar system comes in.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 3 Jan. 2025
• The same is true in a solar system, Cyr-Racine explains.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2022
• Europa might be the best place to search for life elsewhere in the solar system.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2022
• In fact, Mars is home to Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in the solar system.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 26 Nov. 2021
• Europa’s ocean was the biggest in the solar system and twice the size of Earth’s oceans combined.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024
• It’s hurtling inward from the edge of our solar system.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 14 Apr. 2022
• Jupiter is fifth in line from the sun and is by far the largest planet in the solar system, according to NASA.
  — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 7 Jan. 2024
• So, how did Earth end up full of life, Mars cold, dry and dusty — and Venus as the hottest planet in the solar system?
  — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 8 May 2024
• As likely time capsules from the dawn of the solar system, the Trojans are the targets of the Lucy mission.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2023
• Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system and is even bigger than the planet Mercury.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2022
• The biggest black hole discovered so far weighs in at 40 billion times the mass of the Sun, or 20 times the size of the solar system.
  — Chris Impey, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
• Four planets in our solar system will appear to line up in the sky.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2022
• The clay and minerals from the 4.5 billion-year-old rock had been preserved in space’s deep freeze since the dawn of the solar system.
  — Popular Science, 11 Oct. 2023
• The ball of ice, rock and dust’s rare journey took it toward Earth from the outer zone of our solar system.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2023
• Astronomers have yet to find a solar system quite like ours.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Nov. 2021
• Saturn, like the rest of the solar system, is believed to be about 4.5 billion years old.
  — Bruce Selcraig, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Jan. 2022
• If the solar system were full of soup out to Jupiter, things might be okay for some people for a few minutes.
  — Randall Munroe, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2022
• But later in the month, a fourth planet comes around the solar system and into view: Jupiter.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 12 Apr. 2022
• The solar system’s largest planet this week takes a bow and departs the post-sunset night sky for many months.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• Your chart is ruled by Mercury, the fastest-moving planet in the solar system.
  — Narayana Montúfar, Women's Health, 14 Aug. 2023
• Turns out, orbiting Ganymede, which is one of Jupiter’s moons and the largest satellite in the solar system, kind of sounds like R2-D2.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2021
• When objects have more mass, the solar system tends to be more closely packed.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2022
• What about the hottest temperatures in the solar system?
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023
• Hit it again, and suddenly that solar system is a blip in a sea of star systems.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2023
• Still, the oddball world at the edge of our solar system will continue to intrigue astronomers.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 Feb. 2025
• Without a firm lower limit on size or mass, we’re forced to say the solar system has hundreds of planets—maybe thousands.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 9 Mar 2025