Sunday, September 21, 2014

"Good Night, Moon"

The waning crescent

4.4% lit/full

27.5 days old

Now, this is not fairy dust, it is pure star duct.

September 18, 2014
By Amina Kahn
Sometimes (click here) big surprises come wrapped in tiny galactic packages. That’s the strange find from a team of astronomers who discovered an enormous supermassive black hole in a very unlikely place: at the center of an ultracompact dwarf galaxy.