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The exploding comet, known as 12P/Pons–Brooks, is currently approaching its closest point to Earth during its 71-year orbit through the solar system.

People see a continuing role for the space agency, but mostly in national defense.

The Sturgeon full moon rises on Tuesday, Aug. 1, marking the first of two supermoons in August 2023 and the second supermoon in a series of four across summer.

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Two supermoons, culminating in a blue moon, as well as the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower will hit UK skies in August

The moon will be 222,000 miles from Earth on Tuesday

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By any objective measure – publications, sales, recognition – the literature of First Nations peoples in Australia is undergoing a resurgence. At the forefront in poetry has been Yankunytjatjara poet, Ali Cobby Eckermann. Magabala Books, the Broome-based independent Aboriginal publisher of Eckermann’s latest book She is the Earth, has also…

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