Definition of "extrasolar" [extrasolar]

• Being or originating outside the solar system: an extrasolar planet. (adjective)

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• "Yet until the 1990s, with the discovery of a star that wobbled suggesting it was being orbited by a large object, there was no concrete evidence that any of these so-called extrasolar planets existed."
• "His lead character here is Paul Butler, now at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, who has been involved in scores of planet discoveries since the first so-called extrasolar planet was found in 1995."
• "That growth in knowledge is illustrated by the work done by Hubble on the distant worlds known as extrasolar planets."