Side-lights on astronomy and kindred fields of popular science; essays and addresses (1906)
Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909 · New York Harper · leaf 128
ike the former, it is dis-tinctly visible to the naked eye, having the aspectof a faint comet. The most curious feature of thisobject is that although the most powerful telescopesdo not resolve it into stars, it appears in the spectro-scope as if it were solid matter shining by its ownlight. The… … NEBULA IN ORION MAKING AND USING A TELESCOPE to almost any extent by searching them out for him-self. Ever since 1878 a red spot, unlike any beforenoticed, has generally been visible on Jupiter. Atfirst it was for several years a very conspicuous ob-ject, but gradually faded away, so that since…
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