solar system
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Once fully operational, the observatory is expected to vastly expand scientists’ inventory of planets outside our solar system, increasing it from about 6,300 planets to more than 100,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
The mission begins with a 100-day journey to a vantage point roughly one million miles from Earth, where the telescope will then start charting planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
After riding atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope promises to vastly expand our knowledge of planets beyond our solar system and advance the search for elusive “Earth twins.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Dr Sharman said during the mission she was affected by radiation from outside the solar system, called galactic cosmic rays.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Our galaxy is a huge disk of stars millions of light- years across, and the solar system is somewhere near the outside edge of the disk.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
