of sufficient power can beconstructed. Thus the Milky Way, which, to the nakedeye, presents merely the appearance of streaks of lightclouds, drawn across the sky, is resolved by very powerfulTelescopes, into a mass of * Suns, or Fixed Stars, atdistances from us inconceivably remote ! And what… … A German Astronomer,—from observations of 49 Star.-,,—concludes that ourentire System is passing through space at 20 miles per second ! 86S PHOTOGRAPHY. AN HOURS EXPOSURE. our sparsely filled portion of the sky offers no comparison !There are, indeed, literally millions of clusters of Stars,—(…
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