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Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

CHAPTER XI
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The color most prevailing is yellow; but the varieties of yellow are very great.
"We may assume, then, that the blue stars are faint ones, and probably distant ones.

But as not all faint stars or distant ones are blue, it shows that there is a real difference.

In the star called 35 Piscium, the small star shows a peculiar snuffy-brown tinge.
"Of two stars in the constellation Ursa Minoris, not double stars, one is orange and the other is green, both very vivid in color.
"From age to age the colors of some prominent stars have certainly changed.

This would seem more likely to be from change of place than of physical constitution.
"Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.

'All change, no loss, 'tis revolution all.' "Observations of this kind are peculiarly adapted to women.


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