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The Perseid meteor shower is reaching its peak on Monday night, offering a unique spectacle in the sky on August 12, 2024.  The Perseid meteor shower is the most impressive summer ‘rain’ of shooting stars every August and is visible also in Greece. Without needing any equipment, armed only patience …

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Heavy grey-yellow clouds blanketed the sky of Athens on Sunday afternoon, after a wildfire broke out in the farmland and forest area of Varnavas in north-eastern Attica,some 30 km away, and has been raging out of control. The north suburbs of the Greek capital report of a “suffocating atmosphere”, while …

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A stunning sunset turned the sky in Athens into a glorious veil of orange on Monday. The amazing phenomenon occurred right after a heavy thunderstorm  in the West, while rain continued to pour down in the South, the East and the North. Athenians could not resist but taking pictures from …

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Skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere will get a view of the Lyrids meteor shower, the dusty trail of a comet with a centuries-long orbit around the sun. The Lyrid meteors streak across the sky between April 16 and April 25, but in the night from Saturday to Sunday, the Lyrid …

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Do not miss an amazing cosmic phenomenon tonight, Monday, May 30th 2016. Planet Mars reaches its closest approach to Earth for 11 years this evening at 21:35 GMT. The red planet will be just 75 million kilometers away. Mars has been steadily approaching, tripling its apparent diameter as seen through …

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Forget all you have ever learned in the schools you attended about religion and history, and great discoveries and national boundaries. Greece and Turkey will teach you better. And at the end of the day you will shout “It’s all Greek to me” thus giving a new meaning to the …

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