Solar system, assemblage consisting of the Sun an average star in the Milky Way Galaxy and those bodies orbiting around it: 8 (formerly 9) planets with about 170 known planetary satellites (moons); countless asteroids, some with their own satellites; comets and other icy bodies; and vast reaches of highly tenuous gas and dust known as the interplanetary medium.
In a night so bright that the moon coated countless apartment house windows with silvery luster, nearly one-fifth of the borough showed what it could do in case the dread drone of enemy planes sounded overhead".
Mailer, by turns, is analytical, hyperbolic, delirious, homey (the wonderful evocation of the moon's surface as "a barnyard trod by countless hooves") and lyrical ("the moon was a voice which did not speak").
This could also be the case on any world with a negligible atmosphere: Pluto, Earth's moon, Jupiter's moon Europa, Saturn's moon Enceladus, and, theoretically, countless more outside our solar system.
This is only one planet of countless more and there's a moon in the sky beckoning you to visit.
It's nice to be back in the Tiberium arena, and it is a solid update to the classic Command & Conquer world that countless geeks developed massive eyestrain playing many moons ago.
Like many people who came of age in the late 90s and early aughts, I spent countless hours watching the Japanese manga series Sailor Moon on TV after school.
In the midst of countless belching aliens and bikini demons, German opus The Burning Moon invaded video shelves with a vicious wrath.
"For countless millennia humankind has lived in step with the cycles of the moon," Attlee writes, "planting crops, wooing lovers and gathering harvests according to its celestial clockwork".
"Goodnight Moon," the perennially best-selling children's classic that has lulled countless toddlers to sleep, is now on sale as an interactive app, HarperCollins said on Thursday.
