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Backyard Universe: Here are the astronomical happenings set to occur in 2021 – The Fayetteville Observer
From eclipses to planets to meteor showers, here’s what people in the Fayetteville area can expect to see in the skies in 2021.
Johnny Horne | Correspondent
One thing about astronomical events, they go ahead right on schedule regardless of a pandemic here on Earth.
That’s not to say that Covid-19 didn’t have an effect on astronomy in 2020.
The biggest astronomical event of the year, the Dec. 14 total solar eclipse over portions of South America, got nowhere near the number of observers a typical total eclipse of the sun would attract. Observers and photographers from all over the world typically travel to solar eclipse paths,…
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