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)
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Galactic Metamorphosis
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day brings us number 188 in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, known also as the Tadpole Galaxy in the constellation of Draco. A tadpole will change into a frog or toad. What does a galaxy that has undergone...interaction...become? Still a galaxy, but it can visually be very different!
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