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A short course in astronomy and the use of the globes (1871)

Kiddle, Henry, 1824-1891 · New York, Chicago, Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & co. · leaf 171

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e Greater and Lesser Cloudlets. Theformer is in Dorado; the latter in Toucan. These objects arc dis-tinguished for their great extent, the larger one covering a spaceof about 42 square degrees, and the smaller being of about or.c-fourth that extent, but of greater brightness. 271. Double Neb-ulae… … double nebula.—Lord Souse. NEBVLjE. 1u9 The annexed cut represents an object of this kind, found inGemini. It is composed of two rounded masses, terminated bybrilliant appendages and enveloped in a nebulous mass, the wholesurrounded by light luminous arcs resembling fragments of anebulous ring.…

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