Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Photo: EUidtt il- t-rii. UuUcr tilrccl. ^ NOUM.\X LOCKYEll. ASTRONOMY. lK,i:-lSS5. fill! in a blaze of hydrogen and other gases. Nova <-ygni, whiclileaped into visibility November 24tli, ] 870, showed itself to besimilarly cn-ciimstanccd; but a strange development of light at. ODSERVATOUY 01 Sll! III (^CilXS, , TULSK HILL the core of the great Andi-omedu nilmla in August, ].S<So, w
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Photo: EUidtt il- t-rii. UuUcr tilrccl. ^ NOUM.\X LOCKYEll. ASTRONOMY. lK,i:-lSS5. fill! in a blaze of hydrogen and other gases. Nova <-ygni, whiclileaped into visibility November 24tli, ] 870, showed itself to besimilarly cn-ciimstanccd; but a strange development of light at. ODSERVATOUY 01 Sll! III (^CilXS, , TULSK HILL the core of the great Andi-omedu nilmla in August, ].S<So, wasof a different and dubious nature. On August 29tli, (i4, Dr. Uuggins made the capitaldiscovery of gaseous nebula-. The subject of his initial experi-ment was a planetaiT in l)raco. He found nearly the wholi^of its light concentrated in a single green line, as yd unidentifiedwith any terrestrial siiljstance. And tlie case was typical. Inall gaseous nebula; (with perhaps one exception), com})rising, 69-2 Till-: SUCCESSION OF THE DEMOCRACY. besides planetarics, the irregular kind exeinplitied by the vaststructure in Orion, the same ray predominates, although associ-ated, as Dr. Huggins at once perceived, with stated at the same time that the majority of undistinguishednebula?, besides all star-clusters, give an unbroken spectrum,indicating notable progress in condensation. The tirst photograph of a star-spectrimi was taken by
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