St. Landry democrat., 1883-02-03
GrO0mbridge 1880. ,


that the attraction of all the bodies Of
the universe can never stop it. New
toms first law of motion is that = q body
once set in motion and acted on. by no
force will move forward in a straight
line and with uniform velocity for.
ever. = Groombridge 1880 is a body
which has come in at one part of the
borders Of the universe, and having
found the attraction OF all the vast
masses ofssrlns, among which ourown is
butas a mote in thez1ight, to be piacti-
scally "no force,'n speeds on its way
with a velocity which, in Prof. Simon
Newcomb's words. will. within two or
three million years, carry it hey ond s'.the
extreme limit to which the telescope has
ever penetrated" By this it is meant
not merely that it will PASS beyond the
stars. Tor the stars, many. as they are,
and at absolutely incalculabiel distances
as by far the greater number of them
are. are but a handful AL Of them are
within or close to the galaxy of which
the solar system forms. q part. The
streak of light in the heavens viii h we
call the Milky'Wa appears as it does
only because the galaetic region is a
circular disk, the diameter of which is
eight or ten times its thickness. The
sun with the earth is near the center.of
this disk, so that when we look toward
the circumference Of it We, see the stars
crowded together, while. when we look
toward the flat side Of it, they are COM
paratiyely few and scattered. The
Milky Way what we see. when our
eyes turn, toward the circumference. II
the earth We're transparent ball, q man
atits center would see4the galaxy. with
the Milky Way as a bell trimming conn
pletely around it. The star Groom
bridge 1S3ois not only on itsway past,
all these visible stars, bat will 20 be-
yond them, and pass among and
through the region OF neGula by which
the disk. is surrounded, for the nebu1a
in all probability are bit collections of
glowing gas--the substance Of which,
according to a generally received theo-
ny. suns and worlds are made. tn II.
No other star is known to astrono-
mers which has aproper motion so great
as that which is bearing Groombr dge
1880 on its way through infinite space
and which is not less than two hundred
miles per second, nor does science givJ
any account of what produced it. AS
has already been said, all application of
Newton first law of motion shows that
upon it the attraction of the whole uni
sei j. s " ar stals - apsoluteiy ~ loIce
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