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 244
the middle star in the sword of Orion, is seento be somewhat hazy to the unaided eye. This hazinessis due to the presence of a great misty cloud of lightknown as the Great Nebula of Orion (Neb. 1179), thelargest nebula known outside of the Milky Way, andthe most marvellous object of its kind in the… … Mount Wilson Solar Observatory Plate XVIII. The Great Nebula in Orion (In viewing the plate the side to the readers right should be held down-ward. Recent spectrographic measures of the radial velocities of the gasesin different parts of this vast nebula have—as pointed out by Aitken, in TheAdolfo…
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