...unites again with the main body, after remaining distinct for about 150 degrees. This remarkable belt has maintained, from the earliest ages, the same relative...dust, on the black ground of the general heavens. (254.) Another remarkable region in the heavens is the zodiac, not from any thing peculiar in its own...

...unites again with the main body, after remaining distinct for about 150 degrees. This remarkable belt has maintained, from the earliest ages, the same relative...dust, on. the black ground of the general heavens. (254.) Another remarkable region in the heavens is the zodiac, not from any thing peculiar in its own...

...stars, too minute to be detected by the naked eye, and too numerous to be accurately calculated, " scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on the black ground of the general heavens." Sir William Herschel informs us, that, on calculating a portion of the milky way, about ten degrees...

...portion," (he adds further on), " when viewed " through powerful telescopes, is found (won" derfnl to relate), to consist entirely of stars, " scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on the " back-ground of the heavens." Three especial subjects of admiration present themselves in the regions...

...a zone two degrees in breadth, during a single hour's observation." He found this remarkable belt " to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions,...dust, on the black ground of the general heavens. " Come forth, O man, yon azure round survey, And view those lamps, which yield eternal day. Bring foith...

...a zone two degrees in breadth, during a single hour's observation." He found this remarkable belt " to consist entirely of stars scattered by millions,...dust, on the black ground of the general heavens. " Come forth, O man, yon azure round survey, And view those lamps, which yield eternal day. Bring foith...

...single hour." Speaking of a still remoter portion of these regions, he adds, " This portion when viewed through powerful telescopes, is " found (wonderful to relate), to consist entirely of star*, " scattered by millions, like glittering dust, on the back* " ground of the heavens." Three...

...that great luminous band, which stretches every evening all across the sky from horizon to horizon, when examined through powerful telescopes, is found...glittering dust on the black ground of the general heavens. When we speak of the comparative remoteness of certain regions of the starry heavens, beyond others,...

...the stars; and when examined through powerful telescopes, is found (wonderful to relate I) to contist entirely of stars scattered by millions, like glittering dust on the black ground of the general heavens. 'If the comparison of the apparent magnitudes of the stars with their numbers leads to no general conclusion,...

...and when examined through powerful telescope*, is found (wonderful tu relate !) to consist entirety of stars scattered by millions, like glittering dust on the black ground of the general heavens. 'If the comparison of the apparent magnitudes of the stars with their numbers leads to no general conclusion,...