orbiting
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Brown dwarfs are particularly valuable for investigating the atmospheres of giant exoplanets, which are planets orbiting stars outside our Solar System.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
The observations revealed two unusually compact objects orbiting at an extremely close distance.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
Four new crew members for the ISS docked at the orbiting laboratory last week and will stay for approximately six months.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The job of the orbiting receivers now was to determine in a split second which of Aurich’s variations would work in that particular scenario.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
On October 5, 1957, America awoke to the news that a man-made object launched the previous day from a Soviet space complex was orbiting overhead.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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