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    Look up extrasolar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An extrasolar object (from Latin extra 'outside or beyond' and solaris 'of the Sun') is an astronomical...
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    An interstellar object is an astronomical object (such as an asteroid, a comet, or a rogue planet, but not a star or stellar remnant) in interstellar space...
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    Exoplanet (redirect from Extrasolar planets)
    An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. The first confirmed detection of an exoplanet was in 1992 around a pulsar, and...
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  • The Object is a 2024 hard first contact science fiction novel written by Joshua T. Calvert. It is about a scientist who discovers an extrasolar object which...
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    the Solar System, assuming they continue on their trajectories. These objects are leaving the Solar System because their velocity and direction are taking...
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    Gaza, but there is no extrabiblical evidence confirming this. The extrasolar object designated Fomalhaut b is named after Dagon. Multiple origins have...
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    holes, see: Hypothetical black hole For extrasolar moons, all of which are currently hypothetical, see: Extrasolar moon For stars, planets or moons whose...
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    (no matter how they formed). The minimum mass/size required for an extrasolar object to be considered a planet should be the same as that used in our Solar...
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    PSO J318.5−22 (category WISE objects)
    PSO J318.5−22 is an extrasolar object of planetary mass that does not orbit a parent star, it is an analog to directly imaged young gas giants. There...
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    objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles (termed "ices"), such as methane, ammonia, and water. The Kuiper belt is home to most of the objects...
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    telescope List of exoplanets observed during Kepler's K2 mission List of extrasolar candidates for liquid water List of hottest exoplanets List of coolest...
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    ʻOumuamua (category Astronomical objects discovered in 2017)
    rare object, of a type much less abundant than most extrasolar "dusty-snowball" comets or asteroids. But this scenario leads to cigar-shaped objects, whereas...
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    This article documents the most distant astronomical objects discovered and verified so far, and the time periods in which they were so classified. For...
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    astronomers have generally had to resort to indirect methods to detect extrasolar planets. As of 2016, several different indirect methods have yielded success...
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    required for an extrasolar object to be considered a planet should be the same as that used in our Solar System. Substellar objects with true masses...
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    originate in the Solar System, but was captured by the Sun from a passing extrasolar planetary system, specifically that of a brown dwarf about 1/20th the...
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  • intermediate-to-large semi-major axes The plane tangent to celestial sphere for extrasolar objects On the plane of reference, a zero-point must be defined from which...
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    Fomalhaut b (category Astronomical objects discovered in 2008)
    b. These results invoked skepticism about Fomalhaut b's status as an extrasolar planet. On October 24, 2012, a team led by Thayne Currie at the University...
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  • Kepler-39b (formerly known as KOI-423b), is a confirmed extrasolar object (either a Jovian planet or brown dwarf because of its mass) discovered orbiting...
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    examples of such objects in the Solar System to study; not enough is known about the nature of atmospheres of these kinds of extrasolar objects, and their position...
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    An astronomical object, celestial object, stellar object or heavenly body is a naturally occurring physical entity, association, or structure that exists...
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  • Thumbnail for List of largest exoplanets
    discovered, in terms of physical size, ordered by radius. This list of extrasolar objects may and will change over time due to diverging measurements published...
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  • objects with mass below that cutoff. The amount of deuterium fused depends to some extent on the composition of the object. As of 2011 the Extrasolar...
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    This is a list of extrasolar planets that have been directly observed, sorted by observed separations. This method works best for young planets that emit...
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    Exomoon (redirect from Extrasolar satellite)
    An exomoon or extrasolar moon is a natural satellite that orbits an exoplanet or other non-stellar extrasolar body. Exomoons are difficult to detect and...
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    astronomical objects, human vision is unable to perceive the three-dimensional depth of outer space, giving the impression that all stars and other extrasolar objects...
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    Oort cloud (redirect from Oort cloud object)
    Dehnen, W.; Gration, A. (2021). "Formation of extrasolar Oort clouds and the origin of interstellar objects". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 647: A96. arXiv:2011...
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  • objects and phenomena outside of the Milky Way galaxy, i.e. all objects not covered by galactic astronomy. extrasolar object Any astronomical object that...
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  • though in 2003 the IAU declared that "the minimum mass required for an extrasolar object to be considered a planet should be the same as that used in the Solar...
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  • P. (1 July 2021). "The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets. XVII. A wealth of new objects: Six cool Jupiters, three brown dwarfs, and 16 low-mass...
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