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, January 26, 2011
Whirlpool in Dust
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows an infrared light image from the Hubble Space Telescope of one of the night sky's best sites: Messier 51, the Whirlpool Galaxy. Dust clouds are stellar nurseries!
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