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Nature 441, 1040-1045 (29 June 2006) | doi:10.1038/4411040a; Published online 28 June 2006; Corrected 21 July 2006

Science on the solstice

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Every day, all over the planet and beyond it, scientists try to make sense of the world in which they live. Here we present a composite picture of just one day — 21 June 2006, the Northern summer solstice. See news@nature.com for a greatly expanded version of this feature.

Cerro Paranal, Chile00:12 UT Morten Andersen is at the control console for Yepun, the fourth telescope in the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope array. He is taking a census of the smallest stars of the Galaxy's most massive young cluster, Westerlund 1.

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