solar system
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"We see something that doesn't really look like anything else we've identified in the solar system; it doesn't match anything we have in our spectral libraries."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
The observations revealed a chemical makeup unlike anything previously identified among bodies in the outer solar system.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Surrounding it is an extremely dense, star-like envelope of hydrogen that extends across approximately the size of the solar system.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
The event is unique in the solar system because the moon is 400 times smaller than the sun, but 400 times closer to it, making them appear the same size.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
They might have been a solar system of their own, with nothing rise in space, as they went round and round among the dunes and coarse grass of the estuary.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
