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Proper names of planetary systems often follow common themes – for example, the planets of the star Copernicus are named after European astronomers. Proper names for planets outside of the Solar System – known as exoplanets – are chosen by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) through public naming contests known as NameExoWorlds.
Grey-skinned (sometimes green-skinned) humanoids, usually 1 m (3.3 ft) tall, hairless, with large heads, black almond-shaped eyes, nostrils without a nose, slits for mouths, no ears and 3–4 fingers including thumb. Greys have been the predominant extraterrestrial beings of alleged alien contact since the 1960s. [5] Hopkinsville goblin [6] [7] [8]
The adjectival forms of the names of astronomical bodies are not always easily predictable. Attested adjectival forms of the larger bodies are listed below, along with the two small Martian moons; in some cases they are accompanied by their demonymic equivalents, which denote hypothetical inhabitants of these bodies.
List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens; List of Star Trek aliens; List of Star Wars creatures; Lists of Star Wars species: A–E, F–J, K–O, P–T, U–Z; Species of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
This category is for alien creatures reported in UFO conspiracy theories and urban legends, which are claimed by people who share these narratives to exist in real life. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
A culture of extraterrestriality is the cultural imagination and description of otherworldlyness, alienness or outright outer space, characterizing the other through extraterrestrial space, [1] [2] beyond mere extraterritoriality or periphery, being the space that is imagined or described as extraterrestrial, or simply any space outside a described land.
Extraterrestrial may refer to: Extraterrestrial life , life that occurs outside of Earth and that probably did not originate from Earth Extraterrestrial (TV program) , a program on the National Geographic Channel
Alien languages, i.e. languages of extraterrestrial beings, are a hypothetical subject since none have been encountered so far. [1] The research in these hypothetical languages is variously called exolinguistics, xenolinguistics [ 2 ] or astrolinguistics .