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BIRTH OF A SOLAR SYSTEM
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it would revisit its starting-point; if the latter, it would never return. Explosion, therefore, of itself could not
Nebula M. 101 Ursæ Majoris—after Ritchey.
have produced the forms we see, unless they be ephemeral apparitions, a supposition their presence throughout the heavens seems effectually to exclude.
