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nected with the nebula is most probable, but just what occurred to produce it nobody knows. The observed appearances might have been /produced by a collision, and no better hypothesis has yet been suggested to account for them.

Map No. 24.

Near the opposite end of the constellation from a we find the most interesting of triple stars in γ. The two larger components of this beautiful star are of magnitudes three and six, distance