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61 Cygni actually Annular Nebula appearance astronomers attraction axis beautiful Bessel binary stars body bright brilliant calculations Cassell's celestial centre chapter circle colour comet comparison star constellation crater diameter discovery distance double stars doubt drawing earth ellipse fact globe gradually heat heavens Herschel Illustrated instrument interest Jupiter Kepler known labours law of gravitation laws of Kepler length less light lunar magnitude Mars mass mathematician measured Mercury meteorites meteors mighty minor planets minute moon motion move movements nearly Neptune night object observations Observatory orbit Orion parallactic ellipse parallax path period perturbations planetary Pole Star position present proper motion question rays remarkable revolution revolve ring rotation satellites Saturn seen shooting stars shown Sirius solar system spectroscope spectrum spot sun's suppose surface tail telescope tides tion transit of Venus unaided eye Uranus vast velocity Verrier visible
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