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Show rttflred" brer and around tfM Andromeda Andro-meda nebula, there is little in their appearance ap-pearance to suggest a connection between be-tween them ami the nebula. It is different differ-ent with the nebulas in the Pleiades and in Orion. In tho wonderful photographs of tho Pleiades by the Henry brothers, of Paris, one not only sees masses of nebulous matter clinging, so to speak, to some of the more conspicuous stars, but in one place a lonfj, straight, narrow strip of nebnla has styirs dotted along its whole length, like diamonds strung npon a ribbon. It becomes more difficult to resist the conclusion that in t,Ws strange nebulous Wreak, with its stamy file, we possess an indication of the nrado of origin of the many curious otnjans and chains of stars with which '.he heavens abound when we look at at-other amazing revelation reve-lation of celestial photography. I refer to Professor Pickering's photograph of Orion, taken with a portrait lens from a mountain in southern California. Garrett Gar-rett P. berviss in Popular iScieuce. 1 What Star Photographs Reveal. Perhaps the most notable of these celes-lial celes-lial phctogrshs, in the direct light that it throws npon the nebular hypothesis, ia Mr. Roberts' already famous picture of the Andromeda nebula. Nobody can look npon the vast nebnious spirals that this photograph reveals, surrounding a great central condensation, and showing here and there a brighter knot where a satellite of the hnge focal mass is in pro- j cess of formation, without feeling that I Laplace and Kant were not very far ! astray in their guess as to the moda of ! formation of the solar system. , Batjjlthough 8t&rs4nabao4aae t |