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Although parts of California have already experienced triple-digit temperatures, the new season doesn’t officially arrive until the summer solstice — an astronomical event that marks the longest day of the year.—
Hannah Poukish,
Sacbee.com,
8 June 2025 -
The summer solstice is an astronomical event marking the official start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.—
Emese Maczko,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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Within 23 hours, the signals will be as far from Earth as NASA’s Voyager 1, the world’s most distant spacecraft at more than 15 billion miles in interstellar space.—
Marcia Dunn,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2025
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Using radio observations of ammonia, a molecule abundant in interstellar space and familiar on Earth as a common cleaning agent, astronomers mapped the rotating disk of gas and dust swirling around HW2.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
16 May 2025
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“Astrophysical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/astrophysical. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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