These great hollow globes of artificial super-metals, and artificial transparent adamant, ranged in size from the earliest and smallest structures, which were no bigger than a very small asteroid, to spheres considerably larger than the Earth. (Olaf Stapledon, STAR MAKER)
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Echoes of Light
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows V838 Mon, in the constellation of Monoceros. In January 2003, V838 Mon became the brightest star in our galaxy. The light echo of that flash is captured here by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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