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The evolution of worlds (1909)

Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 33

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peculiar to a nebula, would remain visible. Afterwhich the more solid particles due to the disruptionwould fall together and light up again by their individ-ual collisions. Much the same would result if withoutstriking the stars passed close. THE EVOLUTION OF WORLDS Now to put this theory to the… … Spectrum of Nova Persei. (F. Ellerman, 40 in. Yerkes.) never been there before. Within twenty-four hoursof its detection the newcomer rivalled Capella, andshortly after took rank as the premier star of the north-ern hemisphere. Its spectrum on the 22d was foundat Harvard College Observatory to be…

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