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  "title": "An aerial Pacific sunset",
  "description": "We saw a breathtaking Pacific sunset from 12,500m, where the horizon blazed ruby red and sky turned into an earth-sized rainbow. Unforgettable!",
  "publishedAt": "2023-01-09T13:58:51.000Z",
  "textContent": "We were graced with a rare treat on the flight South to Santiago de Chile; being in the West-facing window seats for a _stunning_ sunset over the Pacific.\n\nIf you’ll forgive my inner physicist a moment; being 12,500m up means the sun can get _even lower_ below the horizon and still be visible, with more of our atmosphere even further refracting our local star’s white light up through and onto the sky.\n\nThe upshot? Our setting sun grows to almost fill the horizon through our little porthole. It burns the deepest ruby red, the thin slice between endless cloud and blackest space becomes, in every direction, a vibrant earth-sized rainbow, with an electrifying ultraviolet stripe holding back the stars.\n\nCan you tell I’m moved? I’d share a picture with you but, no word of a lie, these intensities and frequencies of light _just can’t be captured_, or displayed, by anything short of custom or laboratory photographic equipment. Instead, here’s a lovely picture of a sleepy Yvette, from just before the sky dazzled us.\n\n!Yvette, smiling at the camera in front of the plane window and the sunset at 12,500m\n\nAfter a very long day of travel this gorgeous sunset was quite literally, and only, a sight for sore eyes.",
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