Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · New York, Huntington and Savage, Mason and Law · leaf 170
somedistance in the zone of the MilkyWay. 3. It is supposed that if wecould place ourselves at a distancebeyond the most remote star inthis immense cluster, and take anedgewise view of it as a whole, itwould appear much as here rep-resented—the division in the line of the Milky Way being again… … 164 PEIMAEY ASTKONOMY. They are found to be vast collections of glowing stars. §03. What are they supposed to be ? Clusters like that in the midst of which the SolarSystem is found, but so remote as to appear like faintpatches of light. 804. What, then, is the supposed structure of the Universe ?…
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