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)
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Dim Beauty
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day brings us an image of IC 342, in the constellation Camelopardalis. If it were better situated in the sky, relative to us, it might be a more familiar sight (like Messier 31). Alas, the gas and dust of our own galaxy has hidden this jewel from many of us.
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