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Bob Shaw

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Orbitsville
Year 1975
Publisher Orbit Books
ISBN 0708849172
 

 

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Greater than a billion Earths - Orbitsville

For centuries the men of Earth had scoured the cosmos for habitable planets, and had found only one.  They never found another - but one man discovered something better.  Vance Garamond discovered a Dyson Sphere - a space habitat the interior surface of which is larger than five billion Earths.  Alas, from the point of view of the Powers That Be, the worst thing that could happen was the discovery of a place to which all the disaffected people of the world might flee - that's why Starflight, Inc will do anything to keep Garamond's discovery a secret.

 

 

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"Mind-boggling - and brilliantly realised ... continuously fascinating".
Martin Amis
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Cassiopeia A

 

 

Credit: NASA

Death Becomes Her
This stunning false-color picture shows off the many sides of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, which is made up of images taken by three of NASA's Great Observatories, using three different wavebands of light. Infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope are colored red; visible data from the Hubble Space Telescope are yellow; and X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are green and blue.

Located 10,000 light-years away in the northern constellation Cassiopeia, Cassiopeia A is the remnant of a once massive star that died in a violent supernova explosion 325 years ago. It consists of a dead star, called a neutron star, and a surrounding shell of material that was blasted off as the star died. The neutron star can be seen in the Chandra data as a sharp turquoise dot in the center of the shimmering shell.

+ Read More: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/spitzer-060905.html

NASA Image of the day archive

 

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