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Exoplanet vs Exosystem - What's the difference?

exoplanet | exosystem |

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

Noun

(en noun)
  • (astronomy, planetology) A planet which exists outside Earth's solar system.
  • * 2007 , Alexander Hellemans, " 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.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=Kevin Heng
  • , title= 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.}}

    Synonyms

    * exosolar planet * extrasolar planet

    See also

    * planetary system

    exosystem

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (astronomy) A system of exoplanets and associated star