Chubby, brunette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. E.E. "Doc" Smith, Triplanetary, Chapter 5: "1941"
Friday, March 13, 2009
Hickson
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows Hickson Compact Group 90. It is amazing the number of catalogs that astronomers have come up with. I blame William, Caroline and John Herschel for expanding what The Ferret of Comets started!
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