A text-book of general astronomy : for colleges and scientific schools (1888)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston ; London : Ginn & Company · leaf 517
rtyyears ago it was sup-posed that there was no distinction between them except that ofmere remoteness,—that all nebulas could be resolved into stars bysufficient increase of telescopic power. When Lord Eosses greattelescope was first erected, it was for a time reported (and the state-ment is still… … Fig. 230. —The Great Nebula in Andromeda. 887. Forms and Magnitudes of Nebulae. — The larger and brighternebula? are, many of them, very irregular in form, stretching outsprays and streamers in all directions, and containing dark openingsor lanes. The so-called fish-mouth in the nebula of Orion,…
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