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This Month’s Planets
Mars is a morning object this month, and gets easier to see as the days pass from May into June Mars is famously known as the Red Planet because when it’s visible at its best – high in a dark sky – its colour is very striking, although it shines with
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Lyman Spitzer
A natural and passionate student, Spitzer earned a place at Yale University, where he studied physics.He also spent a year studying at Cambridge University and entered Princeton, gaining a doctorate in astrophysics under the mentorship of Henry Norri
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Other-world Greenhouses
I t’s generally accepted that planetary colonies will have to grow their own food, and no colony illustration is complete without an astronaut tending some crops. But like everything in space, this is not as easy as it looks. Various plants have been

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