planetary
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While the warmer waters of the Pacific in an El Niño directly disrupt the weather around tropical areas, pulses of energy in the atmosphere, known as planetary waves, can cause disturbances even at polar regions.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
With three meteor showers, a close planetary pairing, a historic Voyager 1 milestone, and the beginning of a supermoon series, November offers plenty of reasons to look up and explore the night sky.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
“Supermoon has much better PR than than planetary conjunctions,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Hera's arrival will give scientists an opportunity to examine the results of a groundbreaking planetary defense experiment conducted four years earlier.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
When we look around us in our little corner of the Milky Way, we see many stars surrounded by spherical shells of glowing gas, the planetary nebulae.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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