How to Use exoplanet in a Sentence

exoplanet

noun

• In some cases, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet could be brighter than its host star in the infrared part of the spectrum.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2022
• The spectrum of light that has passed through the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-96b shows that water is present there.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 July 2022
• The first exoplanet discovered still holds the record for being the least massive.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2022
• In the image of the exoplanet WASP-96b, water vapor was seen.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• The data for a giant exoplanet, called Wasp-96 b, flashed onto the screen.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2022
• In fact, the first exoplanet was discovered by the Very Large Telescope array in Chile in 2004.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023
• The hunt for exoplanets allows all of us to be scientists.
  — Swapna Krishna, WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
• The exoplanet, or planet outside of our solar system, is a gas giant about six to 12 times the mass of Jupiter.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Sep. 2022
• But a look at exoplanets suggests that this isn't an inevitable fate.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2023
• And clouds float within the hazy, hot atmosphere of a giant exoplanet more than 1,000 light-years away.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 July 2022
• The exoplanet is just 41 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Octans.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2023
• In these cases, the brightness of the full moon will depend on factors such as the size of the moon in the exoplanet’s night sky, its proximity to the host star, its reflectance and so on.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2022
• Indeed, not a single exoplanet has been found around a white dwarf using this method.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2022
• The harsh exoplanet is home to clouds filled with tiny silicate particles, ranging in size from fine specks to grains.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2023
• The earlier discovery of an exoplanet inspired by Star Trek turned out to be a false alarm.
  — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 7 Mar. 2023
• Images of the exoplanet were captured by the Hubble Space and Subaru telescopes.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2022
• Since then many more Earth-ish exoplanets orbiting red dwarfs have been found.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
• To date, no rocky exoplanet has been confirmed to have an atmosphere.
  — Liam Archacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2023
• When an exoplanet passes across the face of its star, sunlight passes through its atmosphere and could be picked up by the JWST.
  — Chris Holt, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2022
• As part of James Webb’s first full-color images, the spectrum gives us our first breakdown of an exoplanet in full detail.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 12 July 2022
• On thousands of sterile exoplanets, throughout all the vast sphere of stars within a hundred light-years of the sun, life was about to blossom—life, or something else.
  — Karl Schroeder, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2024
• In this sprawling universe, the chance that some form of life exists out there on some exoplanet circling a distant star is pretty high.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2022
• And, of course, keep up with the other discoveries Webb has made, like the first image of an exoplanet ever captured.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Sep. 2022
• Scientists now have a large enough exoplanet sample size to be able to narrow the search for habitable worlds.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2022
• As a result, the exoplanet completes one orbit very quickly—a year on this mirror world lasts only about 19 hours.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2023
• Astronomers observed a hot, rocky exoplanet called GJ 486 b using the Webb telescope.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 May 2023
• How detailed could a picture of a distant exoplanet be—especially one that is small and rocky like Earth?
  — Allison Gasparini, Scientific American, 25 May 2022
• Check out its first direct image of a gas giant exoplanet as well as a spellbinding view of the Phantom Galaxy.
  — Ashley Strickland and Katie Hunt, CNN, 3 Sep. 2022
• An exoplanet is a planet that orbits a star outside the solar system.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• Hints of water vapor in the atmosphere of a remote exoplanet.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024