...immensely more remote, and less conspicuous in brightness than the moon and planets, yet because they are original sources of light, furnish us with fuller indications of their nature. " The stars have indeed been represented as suns, each upholding a dependent family of planets. This...

...immensely more remote, and less conspicuous in brightness than the moon and planets, yet because they are original sources of light, furnish us with fuller indications of their nature. " The stars have indeed been represented as suns, each upholding a dependent family of planets. This...

...immensely more remote and less conspicuous in brightness than the moon and planets, yet, because they are original sources of light, furnish us with fuller indications of their nature. To each succeeding age the stars have been a beauty and a mystery. Not only children, but the most...

...nature of which has yet to be discovered, or else that, like Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus, it has not yet attained that degree of density which must necessarily...study of the stars, have felt a longing to know more * [This statement is not supported by the observations of other astronomers possessing large telescopes...

...yet attained that degree of density which must necessarily precede the formation of a solid surface. SPECTRA OF THE FIXED STARS. The fixed stars, though...longing to know more of these sparkling mysteries. The telescope has been appealed to, but in vain, for in the largest instruments the. stars remained...

...immensely more remote and less conspicuous in brightness than the moon and planets, yet, because they are original sources of light, furnish us with fuller indications of their nature. To each succeeding age the stars have been a beauty and a mystery. Not only children, but the most...