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globe, there remains an innumerable host
of fixed stars, nebulas, and nebulous clus-
ters of stars. To these the attention of as-
tronomers has been more earnestly directed
since telescopes have been so much enlarged.
Photography also has enabled a vast amount
of work to be covered in a comparatively
short period, and the spectroscope has given
them the means, not only of studying the
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