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 358
Proctor, too, directedattention to the fact that the luminous streamers in the irregu-lar nebulas often coincide with streams of small stars in thesame field ; and in the case of Orion, spectroscopic analysis bySir William and Lady Huggins has proved the connectionbetween wisps of the nebulous… … R. A. PROCTOR (1837-1888) 306 Stars and Telescopes tial vault — by no means uniform — manifests a markedtendency to avoid the zone of the Milky Way, and to edge of the distance of the nebulae depends; for the parallaxof a nebula, although attempted, has never been measureddirectly. Since 1S90 the…
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