But it was still hurtingly bright, darkening less through its own cooling than because it was being progressively shrouded by titanic veils of uplifted planetary debris.
With that much planetary debris, the ship would not survive.
The ship was invisible, the planetary debris undetectable.
Operating the conn himself, he slowed the craft down to one-third impulse, and they cruised through a deserted solar system sprinkled with occasional fields of planetary debris.
But Pluto proved to be such a small chunk of planetary debris that astronomers realized it could not in itself explain the irregularities in the Uranus orbit.
A storm of planetary debris scattered from the apocalyptic impacts, revealing glowing orange volcanic cores.
The Doomsday Machine continued its single-minded task of funneling planetary debris down a maw that could easily swallow a dozen starships.
The "sun" disappeared, and through the overhead starlight, Rick could see an enormous hunk of planetary debris on a collision course with the ship.
The explosion transforms planetary debris into kryptonite, a radioactive substance that is lethal to superpowered (as by Earth's yellow sun) Kryptonians.
When John visits the grave of planet Xanshi, thousands of black rings fly into the planetary debris, and reconstitute the entire planet.