Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 98
: a smalltelescope shows us marvels. Eighteen millions of starswere counted there with the gauges of William Herschel. Now this Milky Way is a symbol, not of the Universe, 78 THE STARS, SUNS OF THE INFINITE but of the Universes that succeed each other throughthe vast spaces to Infinity. Our Sun is… … Fig. 21.—The Star-Cluster in Hercules. star-clusters, varying greatly in extent and number,some projected in front of others, while the whole formsan agglomeration. Among this mass of star-groups, several thousandsof which are already known to us, we will select one ofthe most curious, the Cluster…
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