The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 426
ccording to thisview, the stars of the Milky-Way appear faint, not becausethey are distant, but because they are really small. 394. Newcomb^s View. — According to Newcomb, the starsof our system are all situated in a comparatively thin zonelying in the plane of the Milky-Wav, while there is a… … Fig, 460. lively ignorant of the internal structure of either the stellaror the nebular zones. The structure of the stellar universe,according to this view, is shown in Fig. 460. INDEX. A. Aberration of light, 38. Aerolites, 304. Aldcbaran, star in Taurus, 340, 342. Algol, a variable star, 343,…
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