orbiting

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The data will help scientists refine imaging techniques and practice operations they will later use while orbiting the asteroid Psyche.

From Science Daily • May 11, 2026

By focusing specifically on stars orbiting within the Galaxy's main disk, the researchers were able to isolate the signature of inside-out growth.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026

Positronium is a short-lived, two-body system made up of an electron and a positron bound together and orbiting a shared center of mass.

From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026

Right now, that means pointing NASA’s space-based James Webb Space Telescope at rocky exoplanets orbiting dim red stars.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Countless hundreds of birds, orbiting the village green once, elasticking longer, twice, winging shorter, three times, then, as if following an order, vanishing inside the tree again.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell