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planet

noun as in celestial body orbiting a star

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This finding therefore deepens our understanding of how solar activity may have created the environmental conditions necessary for life to appear on early Earth, and possibly on other planets as well.

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Ministers have caused themselves a predicament but the targets for cutting planet warming emissions are legally binding and they need to set out how they will achieve them.

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This astrological belief holds that the ringed planet’s return to the position it occupied at a person’s birth marks the dividing line between youth and true adulthood.

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The arrival of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere marked a defining moment in the planet's history, transforming it into a world capable of supporting complex life.

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Astronomers have produced the first three-dimensional map of a planet outside our solar system, revealing distinct temperature regions, including one so hot that water vapor breaks apart.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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