A new day, from space

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Sep 21, 2011 11:34 PMNov 20, 2019 2:04 AM

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Imagine sitting in a gossamer structure 100 meters long, 400 kilometers off the Earth's surface, and hurtling through space at nearly 30,000 kilometers per hour. Now imagine facing east while doing so, looking out the window, and seeing this:

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