Category: Science - Physics
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2. Part 2Spica, the Ear of Corn in the hand of the Virgin, is immeasurably distant from us, and its companion is invisible even in the most powerful telescopes. It was discovered by mean...
3. Part 3Midway between the Southern Cross and the False Cross there is a nebula visible to the naked eye, and in it once shone a bright star. When Halley was observing in the southern h...
4. Part 4+--------------+----------+----------+-----------------------------+ | Name. | Maximum | Minimum | Remarks. | | |Magnitude.|Magnitude.| | +--------------+----------+----------+-...
5. Part 5The large irregular nebulae described in the last chapter are all more or less mingled with stars, at least in appearance, and it has been suggested that they are star-clusters...