TWIN SUNS.
REMARKABLE DISCOVERY. v SGREATER THAN OUR SUN. LOCATED BY a CANADIAN. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. 1 Received July 24, 9.30 p.m. Victoria (8.C.), July 23. What is characterized as the most outstanding recent astronomical development is recorded in an announcement by Mr. Plaakett, director of the Dominion of Canada astro-physical observatory, that he has discovered twin suns fifty-two quadrillion nliles from the earth. Mr. Plaskett estimates that the suns burn at a temperature of thirty thousand Fahrenheit and whirl round one another. The most massive planet is seventy-five times the bulk of our sun and the second one is sixty-six times, While the larger one is fifteen thousand times -brighter than our sun and the smaller twelve thousand times. It takes light fifty thousand years to travel from the twin suns to the earth. The largest of the new suns is more than five times the size of any other known heavenly body.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1922, Page 5
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156TWIN SUNS. Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1922, Page 5
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