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Instead of definition, the staging gives us a muddle of free-floating feeling.
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
In the inner solar system—this side of Jupiter—the proximity of the sun causes both free-floating water and water entrained on bodies like asteroids to flash into vapor.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
Among these hundreds of millions of tiny specks of light lurk newborn stars, extremely cold brown dwarfs that only glow at infrared wavelengths, free-floating planets, and globular clusters—groupings containing millions of the Milky Way’s oldest stars in existence.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 Sep. 2024
The X-ray scissors allowed the model to create the effect of redirecting a free-floating asteroid when hit by a series of nuclear-intensity explosions.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2024
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
In the inner solar system—this side of Jupiter—the proximity of the sun causes both free-floating water and water entrained on bodies like asteroids to flash into vapor.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
Among these hundreds of millions of tiny specks of light lurk newborn stars, extremely cold brown dwarfs that only glow at infrared wavelengths, free-floating planets, and globular clusters—groupings containing millions of the Milky Way’s oldest stars in existence.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 Sep. 2024
The X-ray scissors allowed the model to create the effect of redirecting a free-floating asteroid when hit by a series of nuclear-intensity explosions.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2024
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