Elementary astronomy; a beginner's text-book (1899)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 398
r system, and remarkedthat the Sun must be situated near the centre of the ring.This view agrees very well with the one now received,except that the stars which form the Milky Way, insteadof lying near to the solar system, as Kepler supposed, areat distances so vast as to elude all our powers of… … 374 ASTRONOMY. cally connected and not merely perspectively projected inthe same part of the sky. A majority of its stars are of thesame spectral type (like Sirius). Nearly all the gaseousnebalse are in this region; and most of the stars withbright-line spectra are here. We must then consider…
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