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BIRTH OF A SOLAR SYSTEM
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Nova Persei thus introduces us at its birth to one of a class of most interesting objects comparatively recently

Great Nebula in Orion—After Ritchey.

discovered and of most pregnant import,—the spiral nebulæ.

In 1843 when Lord Rosse's giant speculum, six feet