planetary
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He added: "The clock is ticking if we want to halt the worst effects of planetary warming but there is still time."
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
This event is known as a planetary conjunction.
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026
Roman, however, will search largely unexplored areas of the Milky Way, offering a much broader view of planetary systems across our galaxy.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026
Lead author Michael Wong, a planetary scientist at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, said studying storms on other planets can help scientists better understand weather on Earth.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
Lowell was posthumously hailed everywhere as a genius of the first order, and Tombaugh was largely forgotten, except among planetary astronomers, who tend to revere him.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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