He pointed out lawns scarred by hardscrabble patches of dirt, soccer goal posts rusting, and the Fountain of the Planets surrounded by acres of asphalt.
A spectacle titled "Paradiso" was performed, with players costumed as the planets, surrounded by the sun, the moon, and the twelve celestial signs.
The overall structure of the charted regions of the Solar System consists of the Sun, four relatively small inner planets surrounded by a belt of rocky asteroids, and four giant planets surrounded by the Kuiper belt of icy objects.
America is a country on the planet Earth, surrounded by many other countries, including Canada and Mexico.
I'd spend six December days in the holiest place on the planet and, surrounded by the Old City's 500-year-old stone walls and legions of Christians, Jews and Muslims, I would be the lone unbeliever, walking a tightrope between belonging and individualism, observing not necessarily my faith but the faithful.
What if alien life is like the type encountered in Stanislav Lem's Solaris, for instance, where a planet is surrounded by an intelligent ocean.
These planets are surrounded by magnetospheres, bubbles of plasma created by stellar winds crashing into the magnetic fields of planets.
At this early formation stage young terrestrial planets are surrounded by massive primordial gas envelopes which are mainly composed of hydrogen and helium.
This, in turn, gives astronomers the ability to develop new tools to help them determine if Earth-like planets are surrounded by atmospheres that might allow life to evolve.
The captures could have occurred near the time of Jupiter's formation when the planet was itself surrounded by a nebula that could slow down objects that entered it.
Every Black and Asian man who grew up on this planet grew up surrounded by positive images of whiteness and white men.
