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If you're lucky enough to be blessed with dark, clear skies more often than not, you'll probably have some fun with this telescscope, especially for looking at the moon, but if you don't, the results ...

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Looking Up is transcribed using a combination of AI speech recognition and human editors. It may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print. Dean Regas: On the campus ...

“The recent Nature paper by Borlaff, Marcum and Howell raises important concerns about our ability to continue gathering ...