Bracing for the shooting stars of August
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Nature is putting on a magnificent show across the country beginning on Saturday night. The August Perseids are a shower of shooting stars that occur when the Earth passes close to the debris of comet Swift-Tuttle. In addition to individual sightings, organizations dealing with astronomy (such as the Athens Observatory and its departments) are planning collective observations of the phenomenon from Saturday and in the following days. [Vasilis Metalinos]
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