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Mike Starling

A 4,500-star experience: UK’s best stargazing and dark sky places

Explore the wonders of the cosmos from these dark sky locations across Britain

When you “gaze up at the night sky”, you “can’t help but feel small” before the “grand abyss of the universe that lies beyond”, said Ethan Siegel on Big Think. While nearly all of them are “invisible to our eyes”, our “observable” universe, extending “tens of billions of light years in all directions”, contains a “fantastically large number of galaxies within it”.

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