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solar system

[soh-ler sis-tuhm] / ˈsoʊ lər ˌsɪs təm /


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After leaving Earth and partying around the solar system, she winds up in one of the underground neighborhoods on Mars, thoroughly burned out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

"I like to think about it as walking through a doorway into how humankind explores the solar system going forward."

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Among those selected was Fulton's Grand Orrery, a working model of the solar system which predates the museum itself.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Someone must venture to the far side of the cosmos to investigate whatever factor is stopping the solar Pac-Man out there, in hopes of bringing it back to our solar system and saving our sun.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Working first with his colleague Eleanor Helin and later with his wife, Carolyn, and associate David Levy, Shoemaker began a systematic survey of the inner solar system.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson