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 115
atural phenomenon. What is the firstthing that strikes the mind ? It is certainly the ap-pearance of violent whirling motion.. One would saythat the whole glowing mass had been spun about withtremendous velocity, or that it had been set rotatingso rapidly that it had become the victim of… … WONDERFUL SPIRAL IN TRIANGULUM WHIRLING NEBULA through the mass. These are conspicuous in thespirals. Some of them are stellar points, and but forthe significance of their location we might supposethem to be stars which happen to lie in line betweenus and the nebula. But when we observe how manyof…
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