A beginner's star-book; an easy guide to the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass, the field-glass and the telescope (1912)
Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 1869-1913 · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 35
ips from star to star in itsshining fall through space. Some of the most remarkable nebulae are spiral in forni, and their luminous gases seemcharged with star-like condensations, though no telescope—however great—has everresolved these points of condensation into true stars. Some astronomers… … THE GREAT NEBULA IN ANDROMEDA, MESSIER 31 From a photograph taken at the Yerkes Observatory motion, throwing off their streams of light and matter as a whirlpool in a flood seemsto throw off its frothing waters from its centre. But so great is their distance from ^be Stellar Morlt) 21 US or so…
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