orbit

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Instead of looking directly for faint starlight, they searched for tight groupings of globular clusters, which are dense, spherical collections of stars that typically orbit galaxies.

From Science Daily

Their lives intersect, then disentangle, then return to each other’s orbit again.

From Los Angeles Times

The first day of their journey will be spent in orbit around the Earth, then if all systems are working well, the astronauts will head towards the Moon.

From BBC

While none of the three men would be interviewed, Fischer had decades of quotes and conducted his own interviews with hundreds of people in the filmmakers’ orbits to get a fuller and more honest story.

From Los Angeles Times

But this turned into nine months after propulsion problems emerged in orbit and the Starliner spacecraft was deemed unfit to fly them back.

From Barron's