Herschel views deep-space pearls on a cosmic string


	Herschel views deep-space pearls on a cosmic string

tabsey

10-3-2009 8:11 AM

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astronomy

tabsey says:

A few will be off to the source to collect some more pics for their astronomy collection.

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