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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 17, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 11.

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Millions of Stars

A PHOTOGRAPH of a section of the sky has been taken at the Paris Observatory, some five degrees square, which shows 3,000 stars on a ten-inch square plate. There are distinctly seen on the plate stars of the fourteenth and fifteenth magnitude. If this portion of the sky is fairly represented, the number of stars visible, to the fourteenth magnitude inclusive, must be more than 20,000,000.—Selected.