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 | Listen to the John Philip Sousa march inspired by the 1882 transit of Venus.
By
Jeremy McGovern //
Published: April 28, 2004 |
 | One way to get a dark sky is to buy a house that has it already.
By
Tom Polakis //
Published: April 26, 2004 |
 | Exploring Mars by spacecraft destroyed an entire world that existed only in humankind's imagination — and it gave us a real world loaded with complexities.
By
Robert Burnham //
Published: April 26, 2004 |
 | Some of the most famous episodes of astronomical history were written right here.
By
Matt Quandt //
Published: April 26, 2004 |
 | Fly from Earth into the core of the dense globular cluster 47 Tucanae.
By
Richard Talcott //
Published: April 26, 2004 |