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  • Our galaxy is a huge disk of stars millions of light-years across, and the solar system is somewhere near the outside edge of the disk.†   (source)
  • When every planet in your solar system has exploded?†   (source)
  • I bet we looked like the solar system, with me being the sun and Byron being the orbiting Earth.†   (source)
  • I was nothing, a speck in the solar system.†   (source)
  • Even nonscientists were familiar with the illfated astronomer who had been arrested and almost executed by the church for proclaiming that the sun, and not the earth, was the center of the solar system.†   (source)
  • The guide shows them agate from Brazil and violet amethysts and a meteorite on a pedestal that he claims is as ancient as the solar system itself.†   (source)
  • He lived off Crake's emergency stores, the frozen goods first: if the bubble's solar system failed, the freezers and microwaves would no longer work, so he might as well eat his way through the ChickieNobs Gourmet Dinners while he had the chance.†   (source)
  • Kapoor," Cathy said, "Mark Watney is the most-watched man in the solar system, wouldn't you say?"†   (source)
  • A rotating solar system hung over his bed like one of those things you put over a crib.†   (source)
  • At one point he said the cells "would reach a volume greater than that of the solar system."†   (source)
  • "The solar system," he says.†   (source)
  • Most of the corpses floated within their own small solar systems of blood and tissue.†   (source)
  • It is our first step out into the solar system.†   (source)
  • A half-hour episode of a science news program, this one on the controversial new subject of infoastronomy, the search for radio signals coming from other solar systems.†   (source)
  • I've spent more than ten hours in the psych ward with Sarah Byrnes—really and truly the toughest person in our solar system—and I'll tell you what, if life can shoot Sarah Byrnes out of the sky, it can nail me blindfolded.†   (source)
  • What if this guy with the gun comes from a planet in a whole different solar system?†   (source)
  • "I'm fine on my own, thanks," Clarke said, increasing her pace, as if that could possibly deter the boy who'd traveled across the solar system to be with her.†   (source)
  • Time on earth is keyed to a celestial clock, governed by the solar system.†   (source)
  • He was the one who provided the final description of the solar system and the planetary orbits.†   (source)
  • ] We turned the pages, smiling at the crayon mustache Carter had drawn on Isaac Newton and the outdated diagrams of the solar system.†   (source)
  • Alex folded her arms, not because she was cold, but because she could not remember feeling this light inside, as if her body housed a second solar system.†   (source)
  • Making 3-D solar systems.†   (source)
  • What Cristian liked most was the strange variety of things that would blow into his yard, from geometrically complex tumbleweeds to basketballs, which could be used to make models of the solar system.†   (source)
  • Ten minutes later he was contemplating the solar system again, worried that Grace would find him passed out, clutching a four-by-six bed slat to his chest.†   (source)
  • Yeah, that would get me out of trouble, around the same time the sun exploded and the solar system died.†   (source)
  • Quod erat demonstrandum it is Missing," he said, as if he'd proved Pythagoras's theorem, the sun's central position in the solar system, the roundness of the earth, and Missing's precise location at its imagined corner.†   (source)
  • And I believe we live in a solar system, that we go around a sun, (the Sun), and that the Sun is a giant ball of flame.†   (source)
  • It became a sort of sound telescope to explore the indoor solar system that revolved around her grandmother.†   (source)
  • I am an atom of intellect with millions of solar systems over my head, under my feet, on my right hand, on my left, before me, and my adoration of the intelligence that contrived and the power that rules the stupendous fabric is too profound to believe them capable of anything unjust or cruel.†   (source)
  • You're telling me the earth and the sky and the bliddy solar system came from nowt?†   (source)
  • The earth is only an atom whirling in the universe-of what importance is that bridge to the solar system?†   (source)
  • The same Copernicus who concluded that our little earth was not—heaven forbid—the center of the solar system?†   (source)
  • "They drift around in the Solar System," Alessandro told him, "and at this time each year they and the earth collide.†   (source)
  • I've been so worried about him, this boy I love, more worried than I knew until right this moment, staring up at the solar system.†   (source)
  • For one panicked moment, Lou felt as though they had passed right into another solar system on this clickety-clack train.†   (source)
  • If we Loonies have sense enough in the centuries ahead to remain a free port and to stay out of entangling alliances, we will become the crossroads for two planets, three planets, the entire Solar System.†   (source)
  • Most of the "stuff" in the inner Solar System lay along a vaguely flat plane called the "plane of ecliptic."†   (source)
  • There was no way of telling its distance from the Solar System.†   (source)
  • Though I was always waked for eclipses, and indeed carried to the window as an infant in arms and shown Halley's Comet in my sleep, and though I'd been taught at our diningroom table about the solar system and knew the earth revolved around the sun, andour moon around us, I never found out the moon didn't come up in the west until I was a writer and Herschel Brickell, the literary critic, told me after I misplaced it in a story.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND You don't have much faith in the solar system.†   (source)
  • Around white carbon corner lamps bugs of all sizes are lifted elliptic, solar systems.†   (source)
  • He put on a gown and glanced at the clock, unaware that he was noting the time panorama of the solar system with an unconscious skill that would have baffled his ancestors.†   (source)
  • I never intended even to leave our own solar system.   (source)
    solar system = area containing the sun and everything that revolves around it
  • That's about twice as long as our own solar system has existed.†   (source)
  • Even in the domestic defense forces within our own solar system, there's honor to be had.†   (source)
  • We could only destroy Earth civilization and completely take over that solar system….†   (source)
  • The glass balls are a replica of our solar system.†   (source)
  • The earth was formed when the solar system came into being 4.†   (source)
  • And both the solar system and the Earth are moving.†   (source)
  • Pluto, which is the planet farthest out in our solar system, is about five light-hours away from us.†   (source)
  • Their target is this solar system, and they will arrive in four hundred and fifty years.†   (source)
  • By the end of the summer he has done the whole solar system, three times over, in pee.†   (source)
  • I stared at my scrambled eggs, wondering which solar system they'd come from.†   (source)
  • "We're not even talking about the Terran solar system.†   (source)
  • It's no longer considered one of the nine planets in our solar system."†   (source)
  • The solar system is safe, at least for now.†   (source)
  • That's how Mommy said people remember the planets in our solar system."†   (source)
  • A massive fortress to protect the Solar System from hostile ships coming through the gate.†   (source)
  • The solar system is finally in alignment, and I got my Do Over without even asking for it.†   (source)
  • You said it was the littlest planet in the solar system!†   (source)
  • If the solar system didn't tilt then, it never will.†   (source)
  • "Nobody else in the Solar System could make it," Tyler said, shrugging.†   (source)
  • We are going to secure the Solar System.†   (source)
  • Glatun is in a solar system with very little in the way of interesting objects.†   (source)
  • Ortega's torch ships brought the Solar System within reach.†   (source)
  • I shall be the first man ever to leave the Solar System.†   (source)
  • From now on all of us must think in terms of the solar system.†   (source)
  • From now on, Monarch will dominate the solar system.†   (source)
  • They were accompanied by their impractical inventors to various parts of the solar system.†   (source)
  • That was dangerous, too, because he was in a position of power to rock the solar system.†   (source)
  • But eventually the creators find believers, and the number of believers reaches a critical mass, and suddenly the world becomes round, or the solar system becomes heliocentric.†   (source)
  • The little flock of golden birds continued to twitter in circles around her head so that she looked like a strange, feathery model of the solar system.†   (source)
  • And I make myself some Gobi Aloo Sag with red food coloring in it and some strawberry milk shake for a drink, and then I watch a video about the solar system and I play some computer games and I go to bed.†   (source)
  • I mean, it takes our solar system like two hundred twenty-five million Earth years to orbit the galaxy.†   (source)
  • In the early 1630s, Galileo had wanted to publish a book endorsing the Copernican heliocentric model of the solar system, but the Vatican would not permit the book's release unless Galileo included equally persuasive evidence for the church's geocentric model-a model Galileo knew to be dead wrong.†   (source)
  • Enter a new solar system and Tycho Brahe's formulae lie waiting under the black velvet cloak of space/time.†   (source)
  • In the center of the room, hanging from clear thread, is the solar system, all nine planets and the sun.†   (source)
  • The only name they knew was that of Peter Wiggin, the Hegemon of Earth; the only news that came was news of peace, of prosperity, of great ships leaving the littoral of Earth's solar system, passing the comet shield and filling up the bugger worlds.†   (source)
  • Inter-Planetary Launch was a city of three thousand inhabitants, breathing oxygen from the plants that also fed them, drinking water that had already passed through their bodies ten thousand times, living only to service the tugs that did all the oxwork in the solar system and the shuttles that took their cargos and passengers back to the Earth or the Moon.†   (source)
  • He had told Sophie about the solar system and the new science that developed in the sixteenth century.†   (source)
  • It's very likely that only half of the ships will reach the Earth's solar system, while the rest perish along the way.†   (source)
  • Once upon a time when the solar system began, the moon was hurled outward—outward from the earth, that is—with tremendous force.†   (source)
  • These two hydrogen nuclei, or protons, arrived at the solar system two years ago, then reached the Earth.†   (source)
  • All the planets travel in elliptical orbits round the sun as the result of two unequal movements: first, the rectilinear movement they had when the solar system was formed, and second, the movement toward the sun due to gravitation.†   (source)
  • This is why the time it takes the Trisolaran Fleet to reach the solar system is ten times longer than the flight time of a small probe.†   (source)
  • If the Trisolaran Fleet that had been launched is capable of flight at one-tenth the speed of light, it should take only forty years to reach the solar system.†   (source)
  • Six years ago, in the distant Trisolaran stellar system, Trisolaris accelerated two hydrogen nuclei to near the speed of light and shot them toward the solar system.†   (source)
  • The fifth time, the black ball flew away at nearly the speed of light, breaking the edge of the pool table, shooting through the wall, and leaving the Earth and the Solar System, just like Asimov once described.†   (source)
  • Last issue, in "A New, Powerful Radiation Source Within the Solar System," Dr. Harry Peterson of Mount Wilson Observatory published a set of data accidentally obtained while observing Jupiter's precession on June 12 and July 2, during which strong electromagnetic radiation was detected, lasting 81 seconds and 76 seconds, respectively.†   (source)
  • He explained how vast the earth was, then described how that was nothing compared to the solar system, which in turn was nothing compared to the galaxy, et cetera, et cetera, until I felt as significant as a speck on the underarm of a flea.†   (source)
  • Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the axioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.†   (source)
  • I dream that my blue cat's eye is shining in the sky like the sun, or like the pictures of planets in our book on the solar system.†   (source)
  • Slowly, by inches, he scooted his butt along the carpet until he was flat on his back, seeing the solar system behind a shower of white-hot meteors that cascaded across his field of vision.†   (source)
  • It didn't matter that her father very patiently explained that there were at least thirty-six million miles of difference between Jupiter, the Roman god, and Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system.†   (source)
  • He sends the solar system, in the form of a plastic mobile, and stars you can stick on the ceiling that light up at night.†   (source)
  • She carried Evan to the second bedroom at the rear of the house, the kids' room, with bright blue wallpaper and toys littering the floor and a mobile of the solar system hanging dejectedly from the ceiling.†   (source)
  • I remember something about a solar system, but I'm too light-headed to recite the entire thing all over again.†   (source)
  • Via started reading aloud from her phone: "From Wikipedia: The understanding that Pluto is only one of several large icy bodies in the outer solar system prompted the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to formally define "planet" in 2006.†   (source)
  • My mom would freak, my friends would freak …. the solar system would go out of alignment…… Colin pulls me beside him.†   (source)
  • The view Tyler was accessing was from the VLA that had devoted a portion of its system to observing the Solar System's latest visitor.†   (source)
  • Tyler commed a command and a three-dimensional representation of the solar system came up on four of the plasma screens.†   (source)
  • "Nobody else in the Solar System would have the balls to make it." the Boeing CEO said, shaking his head.†   (source)
  • With Troy, Thermopylae and Station Three, I can protect my nation and, frankly, my world and my solar system.†   (source)
  • Tyler had taken one of the AIs he'd gotten from Gorku and installed it as the overall manager of the SAPL and other Apollo operations in the Solar System.†   (source)
  • If the ring had been coming in along the plane it might have passed a moon or planet and had a change in velocity, what was referred to as a "delta-V" But there weren't any planets "up" in the Solar System and it was inside the Oort Cloud.†   (source)
  • The previous month, the Glatun Council of Benefactors, the oligarchy that made most of the major decisions for the Glatun government, had agreed to cede to the Rangora strategic control over fifteen uninhabited solar systems.†   (source)
  • The Solar system, from a human standpoint, is made up of remarkably unattractive real estate-save for lovely Terra herself, lush and green and beautiful.†   (source)
  • The ship was leaving the frontiers of the Solar System: the energies that powered the Stardrive were ebbing fast, but they had done their work.†   (source)
  • They leave the Solar System under such tremendous accelerations that they approach the velocity of light in less than an hour.†   (source)
  • Perhaps you could eventually handle the problems of an entire Solar System-say fifty moons and planets.†   (source)
  • For a little while the gravitational waves crossed and re-crossed the Solar System, distubing ever so slightly the orbits of the planets.†   (source)
  • You'll never convince any court in the solar system that Reich had a motive for murdering D'Courtney.†   (source)
  • It lay in the heart of the constellation Carina, at the end of that shining trail Jan himseLf had seen, so few nights ago, leading from the Solar System out across the depths of space.†   (source)
  • And all reality… Espers, Normals, Life, the earth, the solar system, the universe itself… all reality hangs precarlously on his awakening.†   (source)
  • The dials read: A.D. 2301 VENUS EARTH MARS Mean Solar Day 22 February 15 Duodecember 35 Noon + 09 0205 Greenwich 2220 Central Syrtis MOON IO GANYMEDE CALLISTO TITAN TRITON 2D3H 1D1H 6D8H 13D12H 15D3H 4D9H (eclipsed) (transit) Night, noon, summer, winter… without bothering to think, Reich could have rattled off the time and season for any meridian on any body in the solar system.†   (source)
  • They might have been a solar system of their own, with nothing else in space, as they went round and round among the dunes and coarse grass of the estuary.†   (source)
  • The goddess is red with the fire of life; the earth, the solar system, the galaxies of far-extending space, all swell within her womb.†   (source)
  • (Momentarily at him, with increasing awe) But listen, it's not finished: the United States of America; Continent of North America; Western Hemisphere; the Earth; the Solar System; the Universe; the Mind of God,—that's what it said on the envelope.†   (source)
  • Not his personal fate, but the fate of mankind, of life as a whole, the atom and all the solar systems, has been opened to him; and this in terms befitting his human understanding; that is to say, in terms of an anthropomorphic vision: the Cosmic Man.†   (source)
  • Has the theory of the solar system been advanced by graceful manners and conversational tact?†   (source)
  • Just as the blacksmith says: "By hammer and hand all Art doth stand," just as the baker thinks that all the solar system revolves around his morning delivery of rolls, as the postmaster-general believes that he alone is the preserver of society—and surely, surely, these delusions are necessary to keep us going—so did I and, as I believed, Leonora, imagine that the whole world ought to be arranged so as to ensure the keeping alive of heart patients.†   (source)
  • Dim and wonderful is the vision I have conjured up in my mind of life spreading slowly from this little seed bed of the solar system throughout the inanimate vastness of sidereal space.†   (source)
  • Had not one researcher in his visionary boldness spoken of the "beasts of the milky way"—cosmic monsters whose flesh, bones, and brains were formed from solar systems?†   (source)
  • Copernicus had no motive for misleading his fellowmen as to the place of the sun in the solar system: he looked for it as honestly as a shepherd seeks his path in a mist.†   (source)
  • Was it illicit to think that certain planets of the atomic solar system— among all those hosts of solar systems in all those milky ways that constituted matter—that the state of some planet or other in that inner world might not correspond to the conditions that made the earth an abode of life?†   (source)
  • Was it illicit to think that certain planets of the atomic solar system— among all those hosts of solar systems in all those milky ways that constituted matter—that the state of some planet or other in that inner world might not correspond to the conditions that made the earth an abode of life?†   (source)
  • The fashionable world—tremendous orb, nearly five miles round—is in full swing, and the solar system works respectfully at its appointed distances.†   (source)
  • He caught terrible colds lying on his back in the meadows of nights, trying to think out the solar system; he had grave doubts as to the ethics of the Fall of Rome, and strongly suspected the Germans of being thieves and rascals, despite his textbooks; he pondered long over every new Greek word, and wondered why this meant that and why it couldn't mean something else, and how it must have felt to think all things in Greek.†   (source)
  • " Do you think," he said, " I am in such great terror of being shot, - I, who am only waiting to shuffle off my corporeal jacket to slip away into the back stars, and put diameters of the solar system and sidereal orbits between me and all souls, - there to wear out ages in solitude, and forget memory itself, if it be possible ?†   (source)
  • 'tis at her beck the grass hath turned Each blade towards the light And solar systems have evolved From chaos and dark night, Filling the realms of boundless space Beyond the sage's sight.†   (source)
  • 'Mis-ter Spark-ler!' repeated Fanny, with unbounded scorn, as if he were the last subject in the Solar system that could possibly be near her mind.†   (source)
  • As for uncle Pullet, he could hardly have been more thoroughly obfuscated if Mr. Tulliver had said that he was going to send Tom to the Lord Chancellor; for uncle Pullet belonged to that extinct class of British yeoman who, dressed in good broadcloth, paid high rates and taxes, went to church, and ate a particularly good dinner on Sunday, without dreaming that the British constitution in Church and State had a traceable origin any more than the solar system and the fixed stars.†   (source)
  • …village of Settignano, three miles back of Florence, on the hills—the same certainly affording the most charming view to be found on this planet, and with it the most dreamlike and enchanting sunsets to be found in any planet or even in any solar system—and given, too, in the swell room of the house, with the busts of Cerretani senators and other grandees of this line looking approvingly down upon me, as they used to look down upon Dante, and mutely asking me to adopt them into my…†   (source)
  • As they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; it is a whole solar system on the march.†   (source)
  • But even while we are talking and meditating about the earth's orbit and the solar system, what we feel and adjust our movements to is the stable earth and the changing day.†   (source)
  • This reasoning of Mr. Solomon's was perhaps less thorough than he imagined, his cunning bearing about the same relation to the course of railways as the cunning of a diplomatist bears to the general chill or catarrh of the solar system.†   (source)
  • …(alpha in Canis Maior) 10 lightyears (57,000,000,000,000 miles) distant and in volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving…†   (source)
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