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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exoplanet/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exoplanet/#x1)
- An exoplanet orbits a faraway star. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exoplanet/#x2)
- Some exoplanets are giant balls of gas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exoplanet/#x3)
- Could an exoplanet have life? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exoplanet/#x4)
- The telescope spotted an exoplanet by watching its star dim. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exoplanet/#x5)
- The exoplanet is too far away to visit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exoplanet/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/26-exoplanets-and-the-search-for-life/0/)
- [Most exoplanets have been found by the transit method: a star dims slightly when a planet passes in front of it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/26-exoplanets-and-the-search-for-life/7/)
- [The James Webb Space Telescope can study the air of some exoplanets by looking at starlight that has passed through it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/26-exoplanets-and-the-search-for-life/12/)
- [Some exoplanets orbit two stars, like Kepler-16b, found in 2011, a real world with two suns in its sky.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/26-exoplanets-and-the-search-for-life/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «exoplanet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exoplanet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.