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A green-hued comet from the outer solar system is swinging through Earth’s neighborhood for the first time in 50,000 years.

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A green-hued comet from the outer solar system is swinging through Earth’s neighborhood for the first time in 50,000 years.

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It will be so faint that you will want to grab your favorite pair of binoculars.

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I get this tingly, magical feeling whenever I’m looking at something live through a telescope.

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Direct object: Learning delays and regressions were most severe in developing countries.

Direct object: About 1.6 billion children missed a significant amount of classroom time.

Direct object: Thomas Kane, the faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard reviewed the global analysis.

Subject: Sometimes bears communicate by scent marking trees.

Subject: Angie Sergiel, a bear biologist at the Polish Academy of Sciences and an author of the study published last month in the Journal of Zoology, has worked on the issue for several years.

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