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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"

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Bang!

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the furthest (in space and time) explosion yet detected by the orbiting Swift Observatory.
Posted by Frederick Paul Kiesche III at 07:03
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