Sentence examples for more distant planets from inspiring English sources

I'm now writing a trilogy about the way we go out of our solar system and colonise more distant planets.

What we didn't know was that there were other, more distant planets that we could not even see.

Astronomers, as you may recall, have been "spotting" more and more distant planets circling distant stars in this way for a while now: roughly speaking, they locate a dip in the light of a faraway star and then, hypothesizing that the transit of a planet in front of it is causing the dip, can chart a "light curve" — beautiful phrase!

I'm always building up little stories in my head and the time it takes to travel between some of the more distant planets in any given system affords you plenty of time to speculate about what you'll find when you reach that distress beacon, or crash site, or abandoned facility.

He concluded that they were being tugged by the gravity of another, more distant planet, which he called "Planet X".

The more distant planet, Kepler 20f, also broiling at around 800 degrees, is 10 million miles out from its star.

In 1843 the British mathematician John Couch Adams began a serious study to see if he could predict the location of a more distant planet that would account for the strange motions of Uranus.

As it happens, there was another signal mixed into the data — one that might hint at the existence of a larger, more distant planet circling Proxima Centauri.

In 1931, Ernest W. Brown asserted, using a mathematical formula, that the observed irregularities in the orbit of Uranus could not be due to the gravitational effect of a more distant planet, and thus that Lowell's supposed prediction was "purely accidental".

This is the maximum distance at which the Earth's gravitational influence is stronger than the more distant Sun and planets.

The new discovery was made by a different technique that favors planets more distant from their star.