extraterrestrial
Extraterrestrial (from the Latin extra 'outside' and terra 'earth') referred to - as a demarcation to terrestrial - extraterrestrial . The whole universe with the exception of the earth and its atmosphere is therefore extraterrestrial.
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In astronomy, celestial bodies are referred to as extraterrestrial if they are located outside the planet earth including its atmosphere or have their origin there. This also applies to other terrestrial (Earth-like) planets and individual features such as extraterrestrial oceans . The Extraterrestrial Physics deals with physical phenomena outside the earth and is closely related to astrophysics . Extraterrestrial solar radiation has an area power density of the size of the solar constant at a solar distance which corresponds to the mean solar distance of the earth , without the interaction with the earth's atmosphere. Astronomical objects that do not originate in the solar system are also known as extrasolar . So planets orbiting a central star other than the sun are called extrasolar planets .
It is also used extraterrestrially in connection with possibly existing extraterrestrial life that plays a role in exobiology and in science fiction literature and films. One of the most famous examples of this use is in the movie ET - The Extra Terrestrial , which contains the abbreviation of the word.
