formation
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He said: "Micrometeorites are samples of the Solar System's building blocks which can offer insights into early planetary formation, Earth's atmospheric history, and climate evolution."
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
"The moon is a witness plate to our entire solar system's formation," said astronaut Koch in a press conference over the weekend.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
"Then we realized the galaxies might actually be there, but difficult to detect because their very recent star formation was suppressed."
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
His canvas was vast and so were his themes, chief among them a clear-eyed assessment of that part of the nation so essential to the formation of America’s national identity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
That day, Zhenya Timofeyeva and her navigator, Valya Kravchenko, flew in formation along with another 587th Pe-2 and seven Pe-2s from the 10th Leningrad.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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