How to Use outer planet in a Sentence
outer planet
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The planets on the other side of the asteroid belt are referred to as the outer planets.
—Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 12 Mar. 2018
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As the dreamy outer planet slows down to a halt on the day of the solstice, the vibe will be lucid and introspective.
—Randon Rosenbohm, Allure, 29 May 2019
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The new rocket may play some role in science missions to the outer planets, too.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2018
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Rather the spacecraft were just following the paths that would give scientists the best views of the outer planets.
—Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
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The first space mission to orbit an outer planet from pole to pole, Juno gets to with a few thousand miles of Jupiter’s cloud-tops at the poles.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 25 May 2022
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Uranus is an outer planet that affects our long-term goals.
—Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 23 Aug. 2022
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Nor are Jupiter and the other outer planets likely to be at risk when the Sun puffs out into a red giant.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 May 2023
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Two outer planets go retrograde in your house of home and family at the end of April.
—Randon Rosenbohm, Allure, 31 Mar. 2019
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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
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In our Solar System, some of it was captured by the outer planets before it was lost.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2023
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The outer planets are gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and ice giants Uranus and Neptune.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2023
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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
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Many members of the Voyager expedition, which was nearing the end of its decade-long tour of the outer planets, joined the mission.
—Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2017
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Each year, the Hubble Space Telescope spends some time looking at the outer planets of our solar system.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
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About this time 40 years ago, two spacecraft were speeding away from Earth toward a rendezvous with the outer planets of the solar system.
—Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2017
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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
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And the latest report, released today, has put this outer planet front and center.
—Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2022
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Since then, the Voyager spacecraft have hurtled past the outer planets of our Solar System, taking stunning photos of the gas giants along the way.
—Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 9 Aug. 2017
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According to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences, the outer planets of the system could cling on to their atmospheres.
—John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 30 Dec. 2017
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Based on the size of the planets, the trio consists of a super Earth as the innermost planet, while the two outer planets are somewhat larger, falling into the class termed sub-Neptunes.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 July 2019
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Despite these changes, the outer planet seems to reside continuously in the habitable zone of the system.
—Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2019
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But fortunately, the outer planets might be safe from this barrage of high-energy space weather.
—John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 30 Dec. 2017
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For example, his concept calls for a small probe to dive into the atmosphere of an outer planet, without requiring the larger spacecraft that carried it there to do the same.
—Erica Naone, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2018
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The outer planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune — were formed by vacuuming up smaller objects in their paths.
—Brian Resnick, Vox, 17 July 2018
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Furthermore, the two planets are orbiting in a resonance, with the inner planet circling its star twice as often as the outer planet.
—Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2019
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Periodic dims in a star’s constant light are as likely to be caused by star pairs that occasionally move in front of each other as outer planets.
—Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2021
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The outer planets, however, including e, f, and g, which orbit in the habitable zone, would have lost less water, and could still retain vast stores of liquid water on the surface.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2017
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The standard model is humanity's own system: The inner planets are rocky and solid, outer planets are gaseous.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Feb. 2019
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Additional missions were identified as well, such as a lunar spacecraft and probes to explore the outer planets.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2018
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The Expanse: In this Syfy channel series, conflict arises between Earth, the asteroid belt, and the outer planets after the colonization of the solar system.
—Jacob Brogan, Slate Magazine, 1 Mar. 2017
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