Carts laden with dim sum circle the mammoth room of this lavish Cantonese palace, offering juicy, shumai-like pork dumplings, rice noodle wraps stuffed with tender mushrooms and crisp water chestnuts, glutinous rice balls filled with black sesame paste, and spicy clams tossed helter-skelter with lengths of scallion.
The black hole is too massive, the star too dim, and both circle each other too erratically.
Only 2.7 times the size of Earth and 6.6 times as massive, the new planet takes 38 hours to circle a dim red star, GJ 1214, in the constellation Ophiuchus — about 40 light-years from here.
Gliese 581g (whose first name is pronounced GLEE-za) circles a dim red star known as Gliese 581, once every 37 days, at a distance of about 14 million miles.
The planet circles a dim red dwarf called Gliese 876, just 15 light-years from Earth.
Sitting around her in the huge, dim hall was a small circle of young MTV people.
Once we were all smudged and back in our circle, Little Owl dimmed the lights.
The candidate planet circling this putative dim star seems massive, like the handful of other extrasolar planets detected so far.
But sitting down in my seat in the upper circle as the lights dimmed, I had a very ageing experience: I realised I had forgotten my glasses.
Others in the Roosevelt circle took a much dimmer view of the idiosyncrasies of the "Assistant President" — his righteous liberal crusades, his distaste for machine politics, his pro-Soviet leanings.
