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Astronomy for schools and general readers (1892)

Sharpless, Isaac, 1848-1920, Philips, G. M. (George Morris), 1851-1920, joint author · Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott company · leaf 267

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ircular outline, with the stars moreclosely packed near the centre. The inference to bedrawn from this appearance is that the cluster is inthe shape of a globe; hence we should look through agreater stretch of stars near the centre than aroundthe edges. But as such collections may constitute… … Fig. 62.—Cluster in Libra. Fig. 63.—Cluster in Hercul 229. Nebulce.—In addition to the clusters there maybe seen in the telescope masses of misty light, which

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