as in globes
the celestial body on which we live
our collective responsibility to conserve the planet and its natural resources for future generations
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The cores of planets offer a unique setting to delve into these fields, challenging our current understanding and potentially revealing new principles that could reshape them.
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Victoria Corless, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2025
The telescope includes two eyepieces—a 20 mm and a 4 mm—providing versatility in viewing celestial objects like the moon, planets, and stars.
—Tantse Walter, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2025
This telescope would be great for people who enjoy photographing the moon's phases, the sun, galaxies and star clusters, but not for observing planets.
—Tantse Walter, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Sometimes, the stars and planets align perfectly, as is the case for the answer for Dionne’s request.
—Phil Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2025
Settling other planets isn’t going to be cheap.
—Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
That makes this research applicable not just to Mars, but to planets orbiting other stars too, with the underlying idea of looking for habitable environments beyond our solar system.
—Jonathan O’Callaghan, JSTOR Daily, 10 Apr. 2025
In theory, those same (or analogous) conditions could occur elsewhere in the Universe as well, perhaps even ubiquitously if the conditions that existed on Earth billions of years ago exist on many other planets in the galaxy at present.
—Big Think, 10 Apr. 2025
Both planets are close to their brightest for some time but behave very differently.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Victoria Corless, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2025
The telescope includes two eyepieces—a 20 mm and a 4 mm—providing versatility in viewing celestial objects like the moon, planets, and stars.
—Tantse Walter, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2025
This telescope would be great for people who enjoy photographing the moon's phases, the sun, galaxies and star clusters, but not for observing planets.
—Tantse Walter, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Sometimes, the stars and planets align perfectly, as is the case for the answer for Dionne’s request.
—Phil Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2025
Settling other planets isn’t going to be cheap.
—Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
That makes this research applicable not just to Mars, but to planets orbiting other stars too, with the underlying idea of looking for habitable environments beyond our solar system.
—Jonathan O’Callaghan, JSTOR Daily, 10 Apr. 2025
In theory, those same (or analogous) conditions could occur elsewhere in the Universe as well, perhaps even ubiquitously if the conditions that existed on Earth billions of years ago exist on many other planets in the galaxy at present.
—Big Think, 10 Apr. 2025
Both planets are close to their brightest for some time but behave very differently.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
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“Planets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/planets. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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