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In this episode, I'll be reading the star from Tales of Space and Time by HG Wells.

So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften.

As we settle in, for a peaceful night's sleep.

It was on the first day of the new year that the announcement was made.

Almost simultaneously from three observatories, that the motion of the planet Neptune, the

outermost of all the planets that wheel about the sun, had become very erratic.

A guilty had already called attention to a suspected retardation in its velocity in December.

Such a piece of news was scarcely calculated to interest a world.

The greater portion of whose inhabitants were unaware of the existence of the planet Neptune.

Nor outside the astronomical profession did the subsequent discovery of a faint, remote

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