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, January 7, 2015
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I'm guessing it might be Hubble Space Telescope week at the Astronomy Picture of the Day. Today we revisit one of Hubble's most famous targets, the so-called "Pillars of Creation" (part of Messier 16, The Eagle Nebula, in the constellation of Serpens. It's amazing to see the difference in image quality since the original image twenty-five years ago.
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