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, October 13, 2017
Under the Chilean Skies
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows The Large Magellanic Cloud over a cluster of instruments at the Las Campanas Observatory (did you know that Chile is home to the overwhelming bulk of ground-based aperture at this point—with those skies you can see why!). Oh, to be able to observe there even with my traveling refractor!
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