Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Lockyer, Winifred James, Mrs., d. 1879 · New York, C. Scribner & co. · leaf 57
o seepeople in order to guess where they are. This is why weare able to travel towards the centre of the nebula, and, not farfrom the line which separates the zone into two layers, to ob-serve a little point. This point is the place occupied by ourSun. The Eartli and planets are with him; but,… … Fig. 13.—The Milky Way. If we live thus in the middle region of a rich nebula, how isit, it may be asked by curious minds, how is it that we cannotdistinguish it, and that our clear nights present around us asky purely and splendidly starry ? Is it then necessary to goaway so many thousand millions…
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