Earth Day has come and gone. But why be so parochial? Shouldn’t we also have a Sun Day and a Moon Day and even a Saturn Day? Wait, we already have those — even if few care enough about word origins to deliberately observe the ringed planet on Saturday or use a solar telescope on Sunday.
Because you never can have too many holidays, here’s a bunch more we astronomy and nature geeks might propose.
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