Examples of solar system in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web When objects have more mass, the solar system tends to be more closely packed. — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2022 This is only part of the picture, though; our solar system stretches far beyond the star at its center, and there's so much more to your astrological chart other than the sun. — Emily Simone, Allure, 20 May 2022 In 1977, when NASA launched Voyagers 1 and 2, designed to probe the far reaches of the solar system, the songs of the humpbacks went with them. — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022 Another fascinating tidbit of the alignment is all the planets will appear in order of the solar system, of course excluding Earth. — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 6 June 2022 Astronomers got their first look at Uranus and Neptune in the late 1980s thanks to Voyager 2, a spacecraft launched in 1977 that traveled to the edge of the solar system. — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2022 According to a new report the troughs that dominate the surface of the solar system’s largest moon Ganymede may have been caused by a collision with a massive object up to 90 miles/150 kilometers wide. — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 25 May 2022 For the sun, those focal points are found at the extreme outskirts of the solar system—at least 14 times farther out than Pluto. — Allison Gasparini, Scientific American, 25 May 2022 For the 2022 tax year, the credit stands at 26 percent of the cost of solar system; it is slated to drop to 22 percent in 2023 and end in 2024. — New York Times, 24 May 2022 See More

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