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Orkney looked out for Venus transit

Orkney looked out for Venus transit

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Midwinter astronomy success

Midwinter astronomy success

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Blue and lonely planet found

Blue and lonely planet found

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Black hole drives hot jets

Black hole drives hot jets

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Cosmic beacon flashes out from infant stars

Cosmic beacon flashes out from infant stars

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An observatory in the Highlands

An observatory in the Highlands

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Dark Skies Orkney 2011

Dark Skies Orkney 2011

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Stones & Stars

Stones & Stars

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Ten years of Orkney Sky Notes

Ten years of Orkney Sky Notes

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Midwinter astronomy festival for Orkney

Midwinter astronomy festival for Orkney

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See Orkney skies on the iPad!

See Orkney skies on the iPad!

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The winter lift is glintan doun
Wi’ tullimentan stars besprent

wrote the Orkney poet Robert Rendall, thinking of the frosty winter nights when the lights of a myriad of stars and galaxies pours out of the immense black of the sky above. The Orkney writer Ernest W. Marwick thought that tullimentan – glittering – was Orkney’s loveliest word.

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A science festival has a radical role in developing a creative climate for a region. Here is the story of how it began, and how Orkney was involved from an early stage in the concept.

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