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World Service,28 Jan 1998,13 mins

Eclipses

Seeing Stars

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Eclipse expert Jack Espenak of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre on the great Caribbean eclipse of 1998, and how eclipses help us understand the sun. Hubble discovers there is a brown dwarf going around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star says Alan Penny of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Plus what was happening among the stars and planets in February 1998. This is a programme from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 1998.

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