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Show What Star l'fcotojrajiln lloie.il. Perhaps the most salable of thtre celestial photographs, In the dirict light that It throws upon the nebular nebu-lar liypothesis, Is Mr. Uoberts' already al-ready famous picture cf the Andromeda Andro-meda nebula. Nilx.dy .au look upon the vast neiu!u sjiira's thaJ this photogra h leveal, Mirtound Ing n great central etnrlersal ion, aud sliouing litre ami th-re a brighter knot wLere a satellite- of the huge focal mass Is iu privets ol formation, without fielingtLat Laplace La-place and Kant re r.tt vtryfar a-trsy iu their guesi as In the liiji'e of formation of the soar sj s't ni. lint, although slatsiuabutid.net are scattered over and aiciuni the An'lmmeda nebub, there !!'(! It- In their ajiiearance to sugge'i i-or-nectlon between them and the tiel ula. It is diOerei.t w lth thu nebuln in the Pleiades and Iu Oriou. I n the wonderful plict3grabg of the Pieia des by the Henry brothers cf Paris one not only sees nir.-es of nebulous matter clinging, so to f peak, to tomti of the more cunsplcuaus stars, but in one place a Iong,ctraIght, narrow strip of nebula has stars dotted along Its whole length, like diamonds strung upon a ribbon. It becomes more dilllcult to rcsitthe conclusion that in this strange nebulous streak, with its starry file, wo pessej au Indication In-dication of the mode of origin of the many curious streams and chains cf stars with which the heavens abound, when we look at "..other nmazingrevelktionof eel ml photography. pho-tography. I refer to P:f. Pickir-log's Pickir-log's iliotograpii of Orion, taken with n portrait lens from a mountain in southern California. J'uputar Science ttmtUj. |