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Sky At Night – Lots Of Ways To Enjoy The Night Sky…
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NLCs With A Smartphone
Noctilucent cloud or NLC displays become all the rage during June and July, the two months of the year when, from high mid-Northern Hemisphere latitudes at least, the probability of a display is at its greatest. NLCs are impossible to predict with an
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The Kuiper Belt
The Kuiper Belt is believed to be made up of the icy leftovers from the Solar System's formation. It gets its name from Gerard Kuiper, who published a paper in 1951 speculating on the presence of objects in the space beyond Pluto, though astronomer K

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