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)
Monday, April 11, 2016
Outburst
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day brings us back to Comet 252/P LINEAR, passing near globular cluster Messier 14 in the constellation of Ophiuchus. LINEAR underwent an outburst and was visible (barely) by naked eye.
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