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)
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Big Eclectic Cat
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows us NGC 6334 in the constellation of Scorpius. Well-placed for summer viewing (and if you're under even semi-good skies, the region of Scorpius and Sagittarius and the area around these constellations are a wonder to explore with even low-powered binoculars), this is more popularly known as the Cat's Paw Nebula.
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