A quick reminder

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You probably know by now that a planet has been discovered around the very nearest star. I thought I’d show you where in space that star is.

The year’s closest conjunction of planets comes this Saturday – and they are the two brightest.

In a room in Pembroke College, Cambridge, hangs a round picture in a square frame.

Here is an attempt to show how several things are now arranged in space.
Mercury will on August 16 stand out far on the evening side of the Sun – the farthest for the year. And yet it is the year’s worst apparition of Mercury!

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