An example of anthropomorphic metaphor in public science discourse:
"…fairly small rocky planets two or three times the mass of the earth, in quite tight orbits around their star and you can speculate that they were once giant planets like Jupiter that have had the outer gassy layers blasted off and you are left with the rocky core, or maybe those planets were stolen from another star that got too close"
Prof. Carolin Crawford
Prof. Carolin Crawford (University of Cambridge) was talking on an episode ('The death of stars') of the BBC's In Our Time. (Read 'The complicated social lives of stars')
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