Photograph from Yerkes Observatory 



A VIEW OF THE GREAT NEBULA IN ORION (SEE PAGES l80-l8l) 



''The central portion of the Huyghenian region in the nebula of Orion is the opening of 

 a colossal cavern in the primordial stellar floor. The nebula is no longer a flat surface. One 

 peers within cosmic deeps; one looks into a chasm before which all powers of imagination 

 are submerged, and feasts the eye with supernal splendors. Tt is like looking in at a door 

 and to the rear of a cave, deep within glittering nebulosity. The chasm is the most beautiful 

 object visible to human sight. Pillars, columns, walls, facades, bulwarks, stalactites, and 

 stalagmites are within deeps of deeps. They glow and shine superbly with pearly light. 7 ' 



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