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Looking Skyward: A Green Hued Comet

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On this week's edition of Looking Skyward: A green-hued comet makes its closest approach to Earth in 70 years, and the story of Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the British astrophysicist who discovered pulsars, but is only now being recognized for her achievement.

 

 

Learn about it all on this week’s “Looking Skyward" with WCAI's "All Things Considered" host Brian Morris and Regina Jorgenson, Director of Astronomy at the Maria Mitchell Association on Nantucket.

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