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, January 29, 2019
Coming into Focus
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is the sharpest image (so far) of Ultima Thule from the 2015 New Horizons vehicle. Merging bodies plus a reddish color coming from??? Stay tuned! It'll take 20 months for the data to be downloaded, so we can expect many more surprises in the months to come.
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Love this shot. The whole enterprise that led to getting this is beyond amazing.
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