Curiosities of the sky, a popular presentation of the great riddles and mysteries of astronomy (1909)
Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851-1929 · New York, London, Harper & brothers · leaf 103
tion of the body throughthe nebula, and its rotation upon itself, set up agyration in the blazing atmosphere formed around itby the vaporized meteors; and as this atmospherespread wider, under the laws of gyratory motion arotation in the opposite direction began in the in-flamed meteoric cloud… … CONFLAGRATIONS with the retreat of another part. So the curiousspectroscopic observations before mentioned were ex-plained. This theory might also account for theappearance of the nebulous spiral first seen some sixmonths after the original outburst. The sequentchanges in the spectrum of the **nova…
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