The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 417
390 ASTRONOMY. 385. Structure of the Nubeculce. — Fig. 455 shows thestructure of these clouds as revealed by a powerful tele-scope. The general ground of both consists of large tractsand patches of nebulosity in every stage of resolution, —from that which is irresolvable with eighteen inches… … Fig- 455- in every state of condensation, and objects of a nebulouscharacter quite peculiar, and unlike any thing in otherregions of the heavens. In the area occupied by thenubecula major two hundred and seventy-eight nebulae andclusters have been enumerated, besides fifty or sixty outliers,which…
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