Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 204
a new destiny. Henceforward, it belongsto our celestial family, and circles in a closed curve. 184 THE COMETS otherwise, it is free to continue its rapid course towardother suns and other systems. As a rule, the telescope shows three distinct parts ina comet. There is first the more brilliant… … Fig. 53.—The tails of Comets are opposed to the Sun. It is usually supposed that the tail of a comet followsit throughout the course of its peregrinations. Nothingof the kind. The appendix may even precede thenucleus; it is always opposite the Sun,—that is to say, itis situated on the prolongation…
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