The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend (1919)
Kippax, John R. (John Robert), 1849-1922 · New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 228
star, Maia, has an invisible companion,detectable by the spectroscope. The chief stars of the Pleiades are of the sirian type,and are drifting across the heavens in the same generaldirection. They are supposed to be about two himdredand fifty light years distant, and are receding from thesolar… … Yerkes Observatory Plate XVII. The Nebulosities of the Pleiades (In these wonderful nebulosities several instances have been found of starand nebula radiating light of identical quality.) The Night-Sky of Winter 177 cent tracery of nebulous matter (Plate XVIL), whichstretches in curious wisps and…
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