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)
Friday, April 10, 2015
Missing Messier
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is spiral galaxy NGC 2903. A bright galaxy in the constellation of Leo, it was overlooked by Charles Messier and his catalog of non-cometary objects.
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