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A diagram lost for more than 350 years documents a spectacular sky of 1630.

Around midday on 24 January 1630, seven suns seemed to blaze over Rome. Many onlookers took the phenomenon as a celestial omen of good or ill fortune, but an adherent of the scientific revolution also took note of the kaleidoscopic sky.
Jesuit scholar Christoph Scheiner recorded the phenomenon, along with a similar one seen ten months earlier.
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A spectacular halo around the sun currently being seen over Mandurah skies is not as rare as people may think.
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