Concepts about the surroundings of planets and planets beyond our own Solar System, such as the Van Allen radiation belts that trap charged particles around Earth and exoplanets that orbit other stars. A concept belongs here when its cited article defines one of them. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
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Planetary Environments and Exoplanets
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Wikipedia: Exoplanet
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An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System.
Van Allen radiation belt (Wikipedia)
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The Van Allen radiation belt is a zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from solar wind, that are captured and held around a planet by that planet's magnetosphere.
Milankovitch cycles (Wikipedia)
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describe the collective effects of changes in the Earth's movements on its climate
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