On Monday, January 21st, the Moon will appear amazingly close in the sky to the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter.

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Three years later a British physicist, Arthur Eddington, watched what happened to light from stars that were close in the sky to the sun during a solar eclipse.

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The asteroid's position was very close to the sun, so astronomers had to observe it when the sky was dark.

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Hughes, who has already spent heavily to bring Roque Santa Cruz, Carlos Tevez, Emmanuel Adebayor and Kolo Toure to Eastlands in the close season, insists the Sky Blues have acted appropriately with Everton over the England centre-half.

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Once a balloon hits terra firma, or something close, it radios its location back to its successor in the sky, which then relays the data to the SkySite website.

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Jing, who is based in Hong Kong, says Chinese regulators are paying close attention to the promised returns from wealth-management products, particularly those that promise the sky.

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It was getting close to midnight in London, and there were no dancers, no waves, no Miami Sound Machine blasting through the August sky.

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Israel's Netanyahu will seek alternate sleeping arrangements when traveling after receiving a sky-high bill for installing a customized bed on a recent flight to London, officials close to the prime minister said.

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