The Pavilion bar serves afternoon tea, then segues into tropical cocktails as the evening settles in, the stars light up, and a steel-drum band takes the stage.

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The reflections of shooting stars light up the saltwater pools around the hotel, and the glacier glistens a brilliant white in the moonlight.

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It will examine the chemical make-up of more than a million stars up to 20, 000 light years away.

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To do that, Project 1640 effectively blots out the light from stars, which allows astronomers to more clearly observe what might be around them, including objects up to 10 million times fainter than the star itself (the image on the right above is a nearby star captured with the imaging system in place, compared to the same star captured without the new system on the left).

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