Astronomy for amateurs . Fig. 22.—The Star-Cluster in the Centaur. Another of the most beautiful, on account of itsregularity, is that of the Centaur (Fig. 22). These groups often assume the most extraordinaryshapes in the telescope, such as crowns, fishes, crabs,open mouths, birds with outspread wings, etc. We must also note the gaseous nehulcB^ universes in80 THE STARS, SUNS OF THE INFINITE the making, , the famous Nebula in Orion, ofwhich we obtained some notion a while ago in connec-. FiG. 23.—The Nebula in with its sextuple star: and also that in Andromeda(Fig- 23). 81
Astronomy for amateurs . Fig. 22.—The Star-Cluster in the Centaur. Another of the most beautiful, on account of itsregularity, is that of the Centaur (Fig. 22). These groups often assume the most extraordinaryshapes in the telescope, such as crowns, fishes, crabs,open mouths, birds with outspread wings, etc. We must also note the gaseous nehulcB^ universes in80 THE STARS, SUNS OF THE INFINITE the making, , the famous Nebula in Orion, ofwhich we obtained some notion a while ago in connec-. FiG. 23.—The Nebula in with its sextuple star: and also that in Andromeda(Fig- 23). 81 ASTRONOMY FOR AMATEURS Perhaps the most marvelous of all is that of theGreyhounds, which evolves in gigantic spirals round a ; ;f. f/0--^M^^^-- --W* i fli S ^-^^^^v? ?^^?- ? ? 1 ^ \^ ^ % ^\-^^^^^:. r|| ^.;-lv ? yfe-v •>. .-, \. ^v^ .,.c- - „|Mii^ J^ ?( /W~ f -V wk^ ^?•??.^ ^****^\^^ > -3^ f .^k^* ^^ ^^^5^39^^ j^ ^^W M /^ v^w;• «^^m ^- ? --i ^^???^y^*^^^^^0i::- ??? -^ r: Fig. 24.—Nebula in the focus, and then loses itself far off in the re-cesses of space. Fig. 24 gives a picture of it. 82 THE STARS, SUNS OF THE INFINITE Without going thus far, and penetrating into telescop-ic depths, my readers can get some notion of these star-clusters with the help of a small telescope or opera-glasses, or even with the unaided eye, by looking at thebeautiful group of the Pleiades, already familiar to uson a
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