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News • Procurement for £850m ten-year ferry contract begins News • Cruising in Orkney — an ‘intimate’ Papay experience News • NHSO confirms new chairman News • NHS Orkney appoint new chief executive News • JIC excitement builds in this week’s The Orcadian News • Tomb of the Eagles replica planned by new owners News • Kirkwall selected as King’s Baton Relay host

Comet PanSTARRS ‘passing by’ the Andromeda Galaxy

News • 05/04/2013

Comet PanSTARRS “passing by” the Andromeda Galaxy as imaged from Rousay on the night of April, 4. (John Vetterlein)

For more images, see the Comet PanSTARRS page at http://www.spanglefish.com/northernskies/index.asp?pageid=468807

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