Studies in astronomy
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- Title
- Studies in astronomy
- Publication year listed
- 1904
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- Public domain eBook
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Studies in astronomy
Author: Gore, J. Ellard (John Ellard), 1845-1910
Year: 1904
The size of the solar system. -- Jupiter and its system. -- Giant telescopes. -- The distances of the stars. -- The sun's journey through space. -- The story of Gamma Virginis. -- The Pleiades. -- Globular star clusters. --The sun's stellar magnitude. -- The suns of space. -- Stellar satellites. --Spectroscopic binaries. -- "The darkness behind the stars." -- The nebular hypothesis. -- Stellar evolution. -- The construction of the visible universe. -- The secular variation of starlight. -- The Herschels and the nebulae. -- A chapter in the history of astronomy. -- Messier's nebulae. -- The ring nebula in Lyra. -- A great Belgian astronomer. -- Some recent advances in stellar astronomy. -- The new star in Perseus. -- The coming comet. -- Immensity and minuteness. -- Light, electricity, and the ether. -- Appendix: Binary stars