Chris Hayden wrote:
>
> I just like the way this sounds.
>
> CH
> >
> >Star Factory Near Galactic Center Bathed In
> >High-Energy X-Rays
> >
> >Near the crowded core of the
> >Milky Way galaxy, where stars
> >are so plentiful and shine so
> >brightly that planets there
> >would never experience nighttime,
> >astronomers have found a new
> >phenomenon: a cauldron of
> >60-million degree gas enveloping
> > a cluster of young stars.
> >
> >full article:
> >http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/06/010608081227.htm
> >
>
It brings to mind one of my all time favourite sci fi short
stories. Azimov's "Nightfall" There was a re-write to
novella length, but it was nowhere near as good as the
original.
josephine
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