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The children's book of stars (1908)

Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith) · London A. and C. Black · leaf 238

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en divided up into severalclasses—those that seem to us to be round and thosethat are long ovals, like this one in Andromeda;but these may, of course, be only round ones seenedgewise by us; others are very irregular, andspread over an enormous part of the sky. Themost remarkable of these is that in… … THE GREAT NEBLLA IN AXDHOMEDA. STAR CLUSTERS AND NEBULAE 203 nebula, with brighter and darker parts Hke gulfsin it, and dark channels. It has been sometimescalled the Fish-mouth Nebula, from a fanciful ideaas to its shape. Indeed, so extraordinarily variedare these curious structures, that they…

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