solar system
noun
: the sun together with the group of celestial bodies that are held by its attraction and revolve around it
also
: a similar system centered on another star
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Still, researchers emphasize that K2-18b remains a high-value target for understanding sub-Neptunes, a class of planets absent from our solar system.
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Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 26 Dec. 2025
Baby Solar Systems While we Earthlings have been enjoying our annual twirl through the solar system, scientists have shared baby photographs of a whole menagerie of other star systems, thanks to the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2025
The events — the first was detected in 2004 and the second in 2023 — are the first collisions between large objects directly imaged in any solar system outside our own.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2025
Unlike comets bound to the sun's gravity, 3I/ATLAS is traveling on a hyperbolic orbit that eventually will carry it out of the solar system and back into interstellar space.
—Eric Lagatta, AZCentral.com, 19 Dec. 2025
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Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 26 Dec. 2025
Baby Solar Systems While we Earthlings have been enjoying our annual twirl through the solar system, scientists have shared baby photographs of a whole menagerie of other star systems, thanks to the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2025
The events — the first was detected in 2004 and the second in 2023 — are the first collisions between large objects directly imaged in any solar system outside our own.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2025
Unlike comets bound to the sun's gravity, 3I/ATLAS is traveling on a hyperbolic orbit that eventually will carry it out of the solar system and back into interstellar space.
—Eric Lagatta, AZCentral.com, 19 Dec. 2025
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“Solar system.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solar%20system. Accessed 31 Dec. 2025.
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