Does Whatever a Spider Can
My wife and I went to see Spider-Man on Sunday, and so I thought I’d celebrate with a Hubble image of the Tarantula nebula (trust me, when you’ve got a six-month old, you celebrate the chance to see a movie).
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Fraser Cain
Publisher, Universe Today
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