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 58
of the actinic rays, the revelation is stun-ning. The principal stars are seen surrounded by,and, as it were, drowned in, dense nebulous clouds ofan unparalleled kind. The forms assumed by theseclouds seem at first sight inexplicable. They looklike fleeces, or perhaps more like splashes and daubsof… … «3 w Q< W STAR CLOUDS, CLUSTERS, AND STREAMS tendencies. Each of the bright stars of the group—Alcyone, Merope, Maia, Electra, Taygeta, Atlas—isthe focus of a dense fog (totally invisible, remember,alike to the naked eye and to the telescope), and theseparticular stars are veiled from sight…
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