ARTICLE: On the Dark Markings in the Sky

Read the paper by E.E. Barnard (1919)

Summary by Bence Beky

Abstract:

It would be unwise to assume that all the dark places shown on photographs of the sky are due to intervening opaque masses between us and the stars. In a considerable number of cases no other explanation seems possible, but some of them are doubtless only vacancies. I do not think it necessary to urge the fact that there are obscuring masses of matter in space. This has been quite definitely proved in my former papers on this subject. If any doubt remains of this it will perhaps be readily dispelled by a close examination of the photographs previously printed.

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