planetary
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Part of the museum’s expansive textile collection, Rosalena’s 27-foot-long tapestry is woven with hand-weaving patterns using satellite images the artist distorted from planetary terrains from Mars and Earth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
The vast, oceanic, planetary gobs of money to build out AI, which investors were supposed to provide without immediate return, will have to come from somebody else—actual customers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
"The Moon has got the same elements in it that we have here on Earth," says Prof Sara Russell, a planetary scientist at the Natural History Museum.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026
A violent planetary collision could easily generate that level of heat.
From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2026
An emerging technical civilization, after exploring its home planetary system and developing interstellar spaceflight, would slowly and tentatively begin exploring the nearby stars.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.