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Pluto reaches opposition and the Moon waxes to First Quarter as shooting stars streak through the sky this week.

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We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

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The Braves and Delaware North are serving up Southern-inspired dishes like fried green tomato sliders, peach cobbler nachos, and a soft-shell crab burger for MLB All-Star Week.

A white dwarf star around 160,000 light years away appears to have exploded twice – the first evidence astronomers have seen that such supernovae involve a double detonation.