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Identifier: astronomyforuseo00gill (find matches)
Title: Astronomy for the use of schools and academies
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 Rolfe, W. J. (William James), 1827-1910
Subjects: Astronomy
Publisher: New York : Potter, Ainsworth, & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Fig. 459- circle as it really exists among the stars, and in the outercircle as it is seen projected upon the sky. According to thisview, the stars of the Milky-Way appear faint, not becausethey are distant, but because they are really small. 394. Newcomfrs View. — According to Newcomb, the starsof our system are all situated in a comparatively thin zonelying in the plane of the Milky-Way, while there is a zoneof nebulae lying on each side of the stellar zone. He believes ASTRONOMY. 399 that so much is certain with reference to the structure of ourstellar universe; but he considers that we are as yet compara-
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Fig. 460. tively ignorant of the internal structure of either the stellaror the nebular zones. The structure of the stellar universe,according to this view, is shown in Fig* 460. INDEX. A. Aberration of light, 38. Aerolites, 304. Aldebaran, star in Taurus, 340, 342. Algol, a variable star, 343, 358. Almanac, perpetual, 82. Alps, lunar mountains, 126. Altair, star in Aquila, 336. Alt-azimuth instrument, 13. Altitude, 12. Andromeda (constellation), 343, 346. nebula in, 376.Angstroms map of spectrum, 164.Antares, star in Scorpio, 347.Apennines, lunar mountains, 122, 124.Apheiion, 47.Apogee, 44.Aquarius, or the Water-Bearer, 350. cluster in, 354.Aquila, or the Eagle, 336.Arcturus, star in Bootes, 335, 365, 370.Argo, or the Ship, 360. nebula in, 383. variable star in, 360.Aries, or the Ram, 350.Asteroids, 223, 241.Astrsea, an asteroid, 241.Auriga, or the Wagoner, 342.Azimuth, 13. B. Betelgeuse, star in Orion, 340, 370.Berenices Hair (constellation), 334.Bodes law, 241. disproved, 273.Boote

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