Figure representing stars in the Milky Way Size:S: 50 x 40cm the nearest star to the

the nearest star to the Sun

By Rycault's left hand is a sword-hilt

3rd August 1987

actress who plays the character of secretary Joan in BBC comedy series

Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk

Figure representing stars in the Milky Way Size:S: 50 x 40cm the nearest star to thePlate 15 figure 2 from the paper 'Astronomical observations and experiments tending to investigate the local arrangement of the celestial bodies in space, and to determine the extent an condition of the Milky Way', by William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 302 331. This simple figure of a circle (all naked eye stars) between two parallel lines (the breadth of the Milky Way) is Herschel's demonstration