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, October 14, 2017
Around the Horizon
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a "all-sky" image of what appears to be auroral activity. Called Steve Arcs, they are less emissions from energetic electrons than thermal emissions from flowing gas. Steve Arcs are a good example of "citizen science" as the description in the link shows.
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