Categories: Comparisons
An example of simile in public science discourse
"all the nuclear processes which would occur at different stages in the heavy stars…which have this sort of onion skin structure"
Prof. Martin Rees
Astronomer Royal Professor Martin Rees (University of Cambridge, The Lord Rees of Ludlow) was talking on an episode ('The death of stars') of 'In Our Time'. (Read: The complicated social lives of stars – Stealing, escaping, and blowing-off in space.)
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