# The New Heavens

Author: Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938

Genre: Category: Science - Physics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19395

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+New+Heavens+Hale&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Go out under the open sky, on a clear and moon-less night, and try to count the stars. If your station lies well beyond the glare of cities, which is often strong enough to conceal all but the brighter objects, you will find the task a difficult one. Ranging through the six magnitudes of the Greek astronomers, from the brilliant Sirius to the faintest perceptible points of light, the stars are scattered in great profusion over the celestial vault. Their number seems limitless, yet actual count will show that the eye has been deceived. In a survey of the entire heavens, from pole to pole, it would not be possible to detect more than from six to seven thousand stars with the naked eye. From...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-heavens-19395/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-heavens-19395/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-heavens-19395/chapters/2/index.md)