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PLEASURES OF THE TELESCOPE.
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attached to some of the larger stars, such as Alcyone, Merope, and Maia, and in long, narrow, straight lines, the most remarkable of which, a faintly luminous thread starting midway between Maia
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and Alcyone and running eastward some 40', is beaded with seven or eight stars. The width of this strange nebulous streak is, on an average, 3″ or 4″, and there is, perhaps, no more wonderful phenomenon anywhere in celestial space. Unfortunately, no tele-
