Sentence examples for of planetary system from inspiring English sources

The recent detections of extrasolar giant planets has revealed a surprising diversity of planetary system architectures, with many very unlike our Solar System.

Originally applied to our own Solar System, this process of planetary system formation is now thought to be at work throughout the universe.

A smaller amount of metal makes the formation of planets much less likely, under the solar nebula theory of planetary system formation.

However, present data for extrasolar planets is likely to be skewed towards that type (large planets in close orbits) because they are far easier to identify; thus it remains to be seen which type of planetary system is the norm, or indeed if there is one.

Hundreds of planetary systems are known.

The discussion was further complicated by the growing number of discoveries of planetary systems beyond the solar system.

Not just in our solar system, but in some of the thousands of planetary systems that Kepler and other missions squinting at distant stars have uncovered.

The discovery, they said, means that our solar system may be more typical of planetary systems across the universe than had been thought.

And so far that is the lesson of the new astronomy of exoplanets — thousands of planetary systems, but not a single one that looks like our own.

There's also an overarching meta-game that sees you vie for control of planetary systems with your three enemies: the bugs, cyborgs and illuminates.

Dr. Douglas N. C. Lin, a theorist of planetary systems at the University of California at Santa Cruz, who is not a team member, seemed ready to accept the challenge.