The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 408
Fig. 441. ASTRONOMY. 381 mers, and excited the wonder of observers, is the greatnebula of Orion, which surrounds the middle star of thethree which form the sword of Oi-ion. A good eye will per-ceive that this star, instead of looking like a bright point,has a hazy appearance, due to the surrounding… … Fig. 442. noticed by no one, and indeed cannot be well observedexcept with large telescopes. In the sword of Orion arethree stars quite close together. In 1656, as I chancedto be viewing the middle one of these with the telescope,instead of a single star, twelve showed themselves (a notuncommon…
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