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, March 28, 2019
Parallex View
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day peers into Messier 15, a globular cluster in the constellation of Pegasus. Look carefully. Do you see the sparkles? The animated image highlights so-called RR Lyrae stars, variable stars with shifts in brightness (sometimes quite dramatic shifts) of less than a day.
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