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wandering star
noun
A planet.
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— from "Etoile Errante" ("Wandering Star") (1992), translated from the French by C. Dickson.
The downside was that my new wandering star could just say no and be pulled in some other direction.
What looks like a wandering star in the heavens is sunlight reflecting off the International Space Station.
television series and movies of varying quality and success, the Canadian-born, immensely talented Mr. Short has become a wandering star in search of a galaxy.
Yet few have taken the time to look closer at the British Isles in search of stories of the wandering star.
A young Gary Cooper is already playing the "strong, silent type" as Sam, a fur trapper born under a wandering star, who falls passionately in love with Lupe Vélez's Lola.
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Ancient Greeks called these lights (, "wandering stars") or simply (, "wanderers"), from which today's word "planet" was derived.
(The Moon and planets similarly travel backward hence, the planets were also known as "wandering stars"—against the "fixed stars" found in the ecliptic).
Now, researchers have proof positive that at least some wandering stars emerge in intergalactic space.
Experts say these wandering stars could play a critical role in how planets are distributed in the galaxy.
The discovery of this intergalactic stellar hatchery helps settle a long-standing debate by showing that not all wandering stars are castoffs from galaxies.
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