Exoplanet vs Exosystem - What's the difference?
exoplanet | exosystem |
(astronomy, planetology) A planet which exists outside Earth's solar system.
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As nouns the difference between exoplanet and exosystem
is that exoplanet is exoplanet while exosystem is (astronomy) a system of exoplanets and associated star.exoplanet
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(wikipedia exoplanet)Noun
(en noun)Dangling a COROT", (Scientific American), vol. 297, no. 3, p. 32:
- More such announcements will likely come in the months to follow, as the first space observatory dedicated to hunting exoplanets , called COROT, begins full operation and researchers complete their calculations.
Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?, volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.}}