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)
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Anti-tail of the Comet
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the "anti-tail" (dust trailing along the comet's path, as opposed to the tail which is now preceding the comet as material is pushed ahead due to light pressure from the Sun) of Comet PanSTARRS, heading to the edges of our Solar System.
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