3. Midnight Sunset

The midnight sun is a quite surreal phenomenon happening in very northern or southern latitudes, nearby the polar regions. It is nothing more than having the sun out in the sky, only, at midnight!
What is stunning, though, is that (it depends on the latitude and the season) the sun does not set, but remains still on the horizon before rising again and giving sleepless "nights" to visitors.

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4. Milky Way

A starry sky is always a very relaxing and touching view, and often, if we spend some time to contemplate it, when our eyes are well adapted to darkness, we could spot some steady "white clouds" between the stars.
Fortunately that is no premonition of rain, because those clouds are well beyond the Earth's atmosphere. That is the Milky Way, no less than the very galaxy we live in!

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5. Meteor Shower

Seeing a falling star is a peculiar event. Its rarity permitted the birth of the popular conception of expressing a desire when seeing one. But maybe this habit founds more solid roots in the fact that people nowadays spend a very little time looking at a night sky, than on the rarity of the event itself.
Millions of meteoroids are in orbital collision with the Earth every day and we should thank our atmosphere that only a tiny percentage reach the ground with much smaller sizes than the original object. On certain seasons the frequency of falling meteors is so high that the event is called meteor shower. But why the Earth is tormented by these intruders?

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