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Phil Halper

@skydivephil • 11 May

Northern Lights from England, taken at Whitley Bay.

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Flying visit

I thought you'd be interested to see this (above). At 4am on the morning of Monday 6 May, we caught what looks like a meteor fireball on our Ring doorbell. It was a real surprise to see it!

Jenni Rising, Eton Wick, Windsor

Watch this space

I think we saw the nova of T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) on the night of 11 May, sometime between 10pm and

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