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"
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Star Streams and Sunflower
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows Messier 63 in Canes Venatici (a somewhat vague constellation, especially in today's light-polluted skies). A nifty sight, even in smaller instruments if you have "good seeing".
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