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Identifier: officialproceedi04rail (find matches)
Title: Official proceedings
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Railway Club of Pittsburgh
Subjects: Railway Club of Pittsburgh Railroads
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : The Club
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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THE SPIRAL NEBUL.E IN URSA MAJOR. Photo by G. W. Ritchey, Yerkea Observatory. his most important discovery to be that the greater number ofnebulae in the heavens partook of the spiral form. You willsee, therefore, that this is another step in the evolution of our Building of a Universe. 231 universe. Look now, if you please, at the picture thrown on thescreen, and you will see that our spiral nebulae have condensedinto stellar forms, and you see before you a great group of suns—many of them probably larger than our own—and there are many
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5^ 38? ^ .2 II e a. 15 ■« s a. oI H hundreds of those suns gathered together in this great cluster.I show you now several of these clusters, among them the greatcluster Hercules, in which there are so many suns that theirlight seems to overlap, and the central portion of this beautifulstar system seems to be a great mass of suns gathered together. 232 Proceedings Railway Club of Pittsburgh. I desire you to have some conception of the immensity ofthis star cluster. Take, for instance, this little portion of thecluster which seems to be composed of five or six stars. If wetake some of the stellar systems of the universe of a size com-parable with this one and place our own solar system in thesame apparent relation it would not cover one one-hundredth ofthe diameter of this cluster. So you see these stellar systemsor clusters, are of immense magnitude, of which we can reallyhave no adequate conception. But now you will question when We come to this part of oursubject, whence comes the

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  • bookauthor:Railway_Club_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksubject:Railway_Club_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksubject:Railroads
  • bookpublisher:Pittsburgh__Pa____The_Club
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksponsor:Lyrasis_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:384
  • bookcollection:carnegie_lib_pittsburgh
  • bookcollection:americana
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