Star-land : being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1891)
Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir, 1840-1913 · London ; Paris : Cassell & Co. · leaf 322
out. Imagine that every one of thosegrains of pepper was to be transformed into a tiny electric Staas. 307 light, and then yon have some idea of what a clusterof stars would look like when viewed through a telescopeof sufficient power. There are multitudes of such clustersscattered through the… … Fig. 81.—Globular Cluster in the Centaui. are other clusters scattered through the length and depth ofspace. It is thus we obtain a notion of the rank whichour earth holds in the scheme of things celestial. THE RANK OF THE EARTH AS A GLOBE IN SPACE. Let me give an illustration with the view of…
Astronomy
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