Peck, William G. (William Guy), 1820-1892 · New York, Chicago, A. S. Barnes & company · leaf 54
seento be the origin of a great number of spiral whorls, the OF THE STARS. 49 denser portions of which correspond to the ring. Thesecurious whorls extend out as far as the secondary centre,which also seems to be the origin of a minor set of spiraltongues. This nebula affords an example of the… … Fig. 19. The Crab Nebula. in the constellation Taurus, of which a drawing is given inFig. 19. In ordinary telescopes it has an elliptical outline,but in Lord Eosses telescope it is transformed into aclosely crowded cluster, with branches streaming off fromthe oyal boundary, like claws, so as to…
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