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a. 1 (context astronomy English) Of or originating outside the Solar System 2 (context astrophysics English) Of or originating in a solar system other than Earth
Usage examples of "extrasolar".
Performing astrometric measurements of nearby stars, extrasolar planet detection, extrasolar planet imaging, and atmospheric spectroscopy.
In realistic situations, this diffracted starlight is much stronger than the light from planets around the star, and because of diffraction effects a circular disk is not useful as an occulter in searching for extrasolar planets.
They recommend the continuation and strengthening of work in such areas as prebiological organic chemistry, searches for extrasolar planetary systems, and evolutionary biology, which bear sharply on the problem.
For instance, to get his characters to one of his meticulously detailed extrasolar planets in reasonable time, Clement must suppose that man in the future will find a way to travel faster than light .
We can observe billions of stars, we've already deduced the existence of a few thousand extrasolar planets-and eventually, we'll visit some of them, and find other carbon-and-water-based life.
He was even able to find several survivors of those early interstellar expeditions, people who knew some of the extrasolar planets and the operation of the overdrive.
Ir their continuing search for other intelligent beings like or totally unlike themselves, many extrasolar planets had been discovered and small colonies established on them, but none of the indigenous life-forms possessed intelligence and had become just so many sets of other-species tools.
It was the first extrasolar planetary body--that is, the first planet outside the Solar System--that we have been able to study in detail, and the Observatory was totally immersed in it.