A popular history of astronomy during the nineteenth century (1902)
Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary), 1842-1907 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 458
s no eyeor telescope can ever hope to see them.3 In Plate VI. one of thesestrange galactic landscapes is reproduced. It occurs in the Bow ofSagittarius, not far from the Trifid nebula, where the aggregationsof the Milky Way are more than usually varied and characteristic.One of their distinctive… … Region of the Milky Way in Sagittarius showing a doubleblack aperture. Photographed by Professor E. E. Barnard, chap, xii STARS AND NEBULsE 425 nence. It will be noticed that the bright mass near the centre ofthe plate is tunnelled with dark holes and furrowed by dusky lanes.Such interruptions…
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