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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

speck of light in the region of the perturbed planet cause any very great excitement.

Scientific people, however, found the intelligence remarkable enough.

Even before it became known that the new body was rapidly growing, larger and brighter,

that its motion was quite different from the orderly progress of the planet, and that the deflection

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