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In 2025 The beginning of astronomical seasons is marked by solstices and equinoxes (equinox means equal night when there are 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness).—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
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Summer Solstice – the start of the astronomical summer – is tonight at 10:42pm EDT.—
Alana Wise,
NPR,
20 June 2025
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Related article Largest celestial object of its kind detected in the distant universe The new images represent just over 10 hours of test observations, offering a brief preview of the observatory’s decade-long mission to explore the mysteries of the universe like never before.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
23 June 2025
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Yet these same conditions—distance from anthropogenic light sources, a mountainous altitude above the cloud line, a crisp desert atmosphere—provide the baselines for Rubin to access the faintest of faint celestial objects.—
Michael Jones McKean,
The Atlantic,
23 June 2025
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The agency would terminate missions currently exploring Jupiter, on the way to study an asteroid, and approaching interstellar space.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
26 June 2025
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This realization reconfigures the entire book, recasting their ongoing dialogue and seemingly cordial relations as an interstellar jail—and the novel itself into an extended, especially cruel prison sentence.—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
21 June 2025
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“Starlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/starlike. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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