Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 385
hat the stars arevery small, but in reality they are suns, many of thembeing much larger than our own sun, and doubtlesscenters of solar systems like our own. There may beseen with the naked eye on a good night about twothousand stars, while twenty thousand times as manymay be seen with the largest… … a BUSV street. by MABEL W. VVHITELEV, AGE I5. Stars can be photographed. Of the stars of the firstmagnitude, there are twenty, fourteen of wliicli are visi-ble in the United States. The ancients grouped the brighter stars into imagi-nary shapes called constellations and gave them mytho-logical…
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