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Beauty of the night sky protected in Kelowna, B.C. as Canada’s 3rd Nocturnal Preserve namedIn fall of 2019, the regional board approved a recommendation to seek the Dark-Sky Site designation for the regional park, located along the south slopes outside of Kelowna.EnvironmentMay 5, 2023
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‘Super weird’: Mysterious object in sky over Calgary explainedCalgarians looked up to the sky to see something quite mysterious on Saturday, but one man solved the mystery and identified the object as a plane soaring through the night.EnvironmentSep 11, 2022
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Manitoba provincial park gets dark-sky designation from astronomical societySpruce Woods Provincial Park was designated as Manitoba's first 'dark-sky preserve,' parks minister Jeff Wharton said Wednesday.ScienceAug 31, 2022
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Saskatchewan meteorologists call northern lights a ‘one-in-100-year solar event’Global News meteorologist Peter Quinlan says this current cycle of northern lights is rare: “This is what's being called a one-in-100-year solar event."EnvironmentNov 4, 2021
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Meet the aurora borealis chasers in Alberta: ‘It’s like nothing else in the world’Ratzlaff said early in 2021, the Alberta Aurora Chasers Facebook group had 30,000 members. That number has since tripled to more than 100,000.CanadaOct 26, 2021
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Meteor streaking across Saskatoon caught on videoA meteor was spotted entering the atmosphere above Saskatoon on Saturday night.CanadaDec 30, 2019
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Mercury transit provides interstellar views and introspectionOne amateur astronomer said seeing the Mercury transit made her feel small but connected with everything else.CanadaNov 11, 2019
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Richmond Hill’s David Dunlap Observatory houses Canada’s largest telescopeThis summer the observatory, which contains the largest telescope in Canada, reopened to the public after 10 years.CanadaAug 20, 2018
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‘It’s never been done before’: Outdoor planetarium in Quebec uses augmented reality to view the night skyUsing a special headset, they look up and view illustrated images of stars and constellations which overlap the actual night-time sky.EducationJun 30, 2018
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Solar eclipse viewing event attracts large crowd in KelownaA crowd numbering in the thousands turned out Monday morning in Kelowna for a public viewing of the partial solar eclipse.Aug 21, 2017
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