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the heavens, especially in relation to the
Milky Way, are striking facts, which will
certainly bear fruit when the time arrives
for discarding vague speculations, and learn-
ing to read the true physical structure and
history of the starry universe.
Stellar Spectra. –When the spectroscope
was first available for stellar research, the
leaders in this branch of astronomy were
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