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Gainesville offers 1.8-mile long walking tour of solar system

Jessica Miller, right, and Laura Wilson, both pathology specialists at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center, read a plaque on Thursday along the solar system walking tour in Gainesville. The walk, which begins in downtown Gainesville and ends near Longwood Park, is a scale model of the solar system. - photo by David Barnes

08312017 SOLAR 0002.jpg — Jessica Miller, right, and Laura Wilson, both pathology specialists at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center, read a plaque on Thursday along the solar system walking tour in Gainesville. The walk, which begins in downtown Gainesville and ends near Longwood Park, is a scale model of the solar system. - photo by David Barnes

Carlos Galarza

Published: Aug 30, 2017, 11:51 PM

The recent total eclipse of the sun in our area has had many looking up to admire the stars and celestial bodies.

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