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Jupiter, magnified so as to fill half the sky, appears suddenly one evening. From that night onwards, life continues as best it can under this sublime and overwhelming apparition in the heavens. People everywhere struggle to come to terms with what it means, with how it can have happened. Is it a portent of the end of the world?… (more)