NEW THEORIES ABOUT THE STARS.
Sir. F. Weston Dyson, the Astronomer Royal, discussing, a few days ago at the Royal Institution, the compos; turn of the Milky Way, said that Mr. Easton, who had specialised on the subject, had been led to believe that it was rather in the nature of a spiral. Stars ten thousand times brighter than the sun were classed as lieing of the ninth magnitude. Mistakes might be made in considering distances as compared with the apparent size. Stors of the thirteenth magnitude of biightness are known to be GOD times as bright as the sun, and thus the untrained observer may well wonder how far such stars must be from the earth.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 203, 25 August 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)
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117NEW THEORIES ABOUT THE STARS. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 203, 25 August 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)
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