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)
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Southern Jewels
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day brings us NGC 3372, The Great Carina Nebula, in the southern hemisphere constellation of Carina. This vast star factory is also home to Eta Carina, a supernova in the making (from our perspective; it's possible Eta Carina has already gone "boom" and we haven't seen the event yet!).
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