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The Milky Sea: Why Does the Indian Ocean Glow at Night?

For three hundred years, sailors came back from the Indian Ocean with the same impossible story. One night, the sea around their ship had begun to glow. Not in sparkling flashes, the way a breaking wave can shimmer.

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