THE MIGRATION OF STARS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 979, 24 February 1910, Page 4

THE MIGRATION OF STARS.

According to some curious astronomical researches recently made and recorded in the "Fortnightly Review" by Professor Turner, many, if not all, of our stars are migrating through space, and have been doing so since time began. It has lately been realised that there are flocks of stars travelling in just the same manner as birds, and the evidence for this statement contrasts curiously with that considered in the case of birds. Instead of the beginning and end of the journey being best know while the flight must be imagined, it is now the steady flight which is' observed, while on the whence, and the wbither, and especially on the why, we can only speculate. Nevertheless, the contemplation of associated flocks of stars steadily journeying past us, the consequent suggestion that distant clusters may have passed near us in the long ago, or may be approaching to within hail of us in the remote future, the possibility that our own sun may form one of such a cluster, and the identification of his companions—all these facts and possibilities necessarily appeal strongly to our imaginations.