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December’s party in the sky

After so many months indoors, the cosmos is doing its best to draw us out of our homes this month. December is a busy time in the heavens. Try to keep up!

Late on the afternoon of 14 December, shortly before sunset, people in the western half of South Africa will start to see a small

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