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The Square Kilometre Array will take longer to expand further into eight African nations than originally planned.

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Oct. 12 is Astronomy Day, and Pebble Hill Plantation is offering a special program on the sun to celebrate. Randy Rhea, an astronomer, engineer, and author, will present “There’s More to the Sun than ...

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