Examples of outer planet in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This is when the outer planet will be at its most luminous, making for a brilliant night sky view. — Megan Marples, CNN, 30 July 2021 In the 1970s, as the Voyager mission cruised toward the outer planets, scientists predicted that the spacecraft would find moons like our own. — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2020 This was incidental; the Voyager probes were built to study the outer planets but were given gravitational boosts that ultimately sent them speeding off fast enough to cover three times the distance from the Earth to the Sun every year. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Nov. 2019 Hubble participates in the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program, and these images of the outer planets help scientists study the giant planets and their atmospheres. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019 Consider Voyager 1 and 2, the space probes launched in 1977 that explored the outer planets of the solar system and then headed out toward interstellar space. — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 14 Mar. 2020 Two outer planets go retrograde in your house of home and family at the end of April. — Randon Rosenbohm, Allure, 31 Mar. 2019 This week in the night sky Get the year’s best view of the distant ice giant Uranus on Sunday night, as the outer planet lies opposite the sun in our sky. — National Geographic, 23 Oct. 2019 Hubble participates in the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program, and these images of the outer planets help scientists study the giant planets and their atmospheres. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019

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