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Posts tagged as “dark skies”

Cosmic news from far and near

Celestial Exploring again has to pick and choose from the myriad cosmic news items recorded over the last week. Weā€™ll do some highlights and trust our readers can catch up on additional matters from other reliable sources. Of course, a lot of our attention was drawn last week to the long-anticipated return of US exploring astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore from the International Space Station. (And no, Elon, they were not ā€œabandonedā€ there; they were willing ISS residents due to a failed return vehicle nine months ago, simply awaiting, while fully engaged in spacewalks, obserĀ­vations, and experiments, their eventual safe ride home on your next available Space X.) Apparently the Gulf of Mexico splashdown off the west coast of Florida on March 18 was…