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Friday essay: love and loss in outer space – Ceridwen Dovey on how scientists feel about space objects
This is the day we will sink our own home – it is old, they say, and can’t live forever. I’m among the ones who must lock the dome behind us and throw the keys in the river of stardust in which we’ve swum for so long. Happy new year! The cry goes up far …