Length5h 49m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "The Galaxy, or Milky Way, surrounds the borders of our island in space like a stellar garland, and when openings appear in it they are, by contrast, far more impressive than the general darkness of the interstellar expanse seen in other directions. Yet even that expanse is not everywhere equally dark, for it contains gloomy deeps discernible with careful watching. Here, too, contrast plays an important part, though less striking than within the galactic region. Some of Sir William Herschel's observations appear to indicate an association between these tenebrious spots and neighbouring star clouds and nebulae. It is an illuminating bit of astronomical history that when he was sweeping the then virgin heavens with his great telescopes he was accustomed to say to his sister who, note-book in hand, waited at his side to take down his words, fresh with the inspiration of discovery: ``Prepare to write; the nebulae are coming; here space is vacant.""
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Rating★★★★ 3.7 (88)
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GenreScience Fiction, Literary Classics
Length5 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 15, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
2The Windows of Absolute Night
3Star-Clouds, Star-Clusters, and Star-Streams
4Stellar Migrations
5The Passing of the Constellations
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6Conflagrations in the Heavens
7Explosive and Whirling Nebulæ
8The Banners of the Sun
9The Zodiacal Light Mystery
10Marvels of the Aurora
11Strange Adventures of Comets
12Meteors, Fire-Balls, and Meteorites
13The Wrecking of the Moon
14The Great Mars Problem
15The Riddle of the Asteroids
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