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 119
splitting asunder under theintolerable strain, and in a little while, as time isreckoned in the Cosmos, it will be gyrating into stars.And then look at the cyclonic rain of already finishedstars whirling round the outskirts of the storm.Observe how scores of them are yet involved in thefading… … SPIRAL IN URSA MAJOR WHIRLING NEBULA ing about the edges of a hurricane. And so againare suns born! Let us turn to the exquisite spiral in Ursa Major;how different its aspect from that of the other! Onewould say that if the terrific coil in Triangulum hasall but destroyed itself in its fury, this…
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