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solar system

noun as in planets orbiting sun

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This explains why both Uranus and its solar system neighbor, Neptune, have magnetic fields very different from the one we experience on Earth.

From Salon

These are just two proposals that planetary scientists have come up with for what lies beneath the thick, bluish, hydrogen-and-helium atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune, our solar system's unique, but superficially bland, ice giants.

Astronomers have detected more ice giant-sized bodies outside of our solar system than any other kind of exoplanet.

For astronauts like Williams and Wilmore, the impact space has on the body is a small price to pay to explore the solar system.

From Salon

The measurements from the spacecraft’s instruments indicated that the planets and moons were inactive, unlike the other moons in the outer solar system.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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