planetary system
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By studying drought as part of an interconnected planetary system rather than as isolated weather events, scientists can identify potential early warning regions before local droughts expand into broader crises.
From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2026
"This is a new phenomenon, a point source that appears in a planetary system and then over 10 years or more slowly disappears," Kalas said.
From Science Daily • Jan. 7, 2026
The two events -- first seen in 2004 and again in 2023 -- represent the first time astronomers have directly imaged collisions between large objects in a planetary system beyond our own.
From Science Daily • Jan. 7, 2026
The collisions occurred in the planetary system surrounding the star Fomalhaut, located about 25 light-years from Earth in the Piscis Austrinus constellation.
From Science Daily • Jan. 1, 2026
Similarly, Ptolemy had demonstrated that no homocentric planetary system could account for the observed phenomena, but philosophers were still trying to produce such a system well into the sixteenth century.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
