The starry skies: or, First lessons on the sun, moon and stars (1894)
Giberne, Agnes, 1845-1939 · New York, American tract society · leaf 250
ographs takenof the Pleiades, a curious soft haze has comeout round several of the stars, as you may seefor yourself in a photograph which tells a truertale than our eyes can tell. Do you remember hearing that a star is, mostlikely, a young world not yet cooled? Well, itmay be that a nebula is a… … GIANT-SUNS AND CLUSTERS. 223 the sky at night a band of pale light, widerhere, narrower there. In a clear evening, after dark, it may alwaysbe seen, and it is called The Milky Way. Stars lie scattered over and around the MilkyWay. But beyond and behind all the brighterstars is spread that soft pale…
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