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    My virtual comet sighting

    Oct 08, 2020 2 minutes
    by David Grinspoon

    FEW THINGS STIR THE SOUL like the sight of a comet airbrushed onto a dark starry sky, its ghostly glow intruding on a familiar celestial landscape, its tail blown by unseen winds, reminding us that the cosmos is far from static and fully known. The transience is part of the thrill.

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