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It takes a very cold winter night, somewhere far away from the lights of a city, to truly make the spectacle of the universe visible to the naked eye. It is the kind of cold that threatens to freeze the lungs and promises frostbite to those who tempt fate with bare skin. But to the brave and the hardy, the cold turns the air to crystal, and a glance upward reveals the cosmos in its unmitigated splendor. On such nights with the world turned silent, starlight from millions of stars is reflected from freshly fallen snow in tiny sparkles of blue and silver and sometimes, it seems, in yellow. These nights are a time of imponderable magic and mystery, when the power of the full ...