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circumpolar| In astronomy, term used to describe celestial objects that remain above the horizon at all times and do not set as seen from a given location. The amount of sky that is circumpolar depends on the observer's latitude on Earth. At the Earth's poles, all the visible sky is circumpolar, but at the Earth's Equator none of it is circumpolar. |
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