Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1901)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 304
nebulae ob-served in space. On these pages are reproduced thefigure of Poincare, and a typical double nebula, toshow the process of division. The masses resulting from the figures of Darwinand Poincare are much too large relatively to render the results applicableto our own system,where the… … TYPICAL DOUBLE NEBULA IN VIRGO ■ o t u . r * 1 \ they are (No 1202 in Sir John Herschel s Catalogue) ■> (No. 61 hi Messiers Catalogue) abundance elsewherein space. He pointsout that the double stars are remarkable for twofundamental facts: (1) The large mass-ratios of thecomponents, so that the…
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