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“[I]t is now again on the increase. It is, and has been for a month, brighter than [the star] Canopus. Half-way indeed between him and Sirius, and very red.”
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By Ron Cowen
“[I]t is now again on the increase. It is, and has been for a month, brighter than [the star] Canopus. Half-way indeed between him and Sirius, and very red.”
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