exoplanet

«exoplanet» in Mova's school dictionary: a planet that goes around a star other than our Sun — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an exoplanet, exoplanets)

meaning for a pupil

An exoplanet is a planet that goes around a star other than our Sun. tree →

sense in the lessons

In space science, thousands of exoplanets have been found, mostly by spotting a star dimming as a planet passes in front. Scientists look for exoplanets in the «Goldilocks zone», where water could be liquid. No life has been found on any exoplanet so far.

examples

• Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets. tree →
• An exoplanet orbits a faraway star. tree →
• Some exoplanets are giant balls of gas. tree →
• Could an exoplanet have life? tree →
• The telescope spotted an exoplanet by watching its star dim. tree →
• The exoplanet is too far away to visit. tree →

note

Use «an». «Exo-» means outside (outside our solar system).

In the corpora

• An exoplanet is a planet going round a star other than our Sun, and we now know thousands of them.
• Most exoplanets have been found by the transit method: a star dims slightly when a planet passes in front of it.
• The James Webb Space Telescope can study the air of some exoplanets by looking at starlight that has passed through it.
• Some exoplanets orbit two stars, like Kepler-16b, found in 2011, a real world with two suns in its sky.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «exoplanet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.