Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-04-10
Pour worlds TO be Seen.
From the View York sun

From the New York Sun
-Four Of the worlds, that, together
with the earth, are lighted, warmed and
governed by the sun, a now be seen
AZ the same time in the evening sky.
Venus appears In the west, long before
twilight ends, SO bright that NO one can
fail to recognize her. In q line stretch
ing up the eastern slope Of the heavens
are Saturn, Jupiter. and Mars, Saturn
being highest and Mars bringing up the
rear. Az the same time the majority Of
the first magnitude stars visible In shi.
latitude are above the huTixUn-Sirius,
the king of the suns, placed beside
which our sun would be almost mris
ible; Rigel concealed in whose flashing
white RAYS the telescope reveals q little
star Of the purest blue; Betelgeonse,
which glows in q good glass like a fiery
topaz; Procyon, whose stag.
gerlng motions have shown to the eye
of science the existence Of q dark star
close to the bright one, although nc
telescope has eyer yet caught a CLEAN
Of revealing light from it; Aldebaran.
the rose hued star that marks the eve Of
Taurus; Capella, us white as a diamond,
and several others less brilliant.
A practiced eye quickly distinguishes
the planets before named from these
stars, but when q telescope is used the
similarity Of appearance which some
times puzzles the observer with the
naked eye at once vanishes. The stars
remain only points of dazzling light,
even with the highest powers, while the
planets lose their resemblance to stars
and shine in the telescope, ever with
low magnifying powers, like mcens.
Venus now resembles The moon when
near her first quarter. Saturn appears
as a round globe, surrounded by a broad
fat ring. jupiter presents his great
oval face, streaked and spotted like a
harlequin, while his four moons circle
around him, their motion being easily
Perceptible during q single evening.
Mars shows the glittering snow fields
around his poles, and the outline of his
continents and seas, covered sometimes
by clouds.
40" years ago tueT6 WaS an eAtFAOr-
binary convulsion Of Jupiter, whose az.
fects Mere shown by the sudden appear.
ance npon the planet &C fiery red spot
which covered an area equalto the whole
surface of the earth, Lately this spot
has almost completely faded from view,
but other singular spots have made their
appearance, and the surface OF the eaua.
torial regions OF the planet seem to have
undergone a similar shifting toward ia
south pole. 1t is most interesting 10
watch these gigantic commissions of
Jupiter, for it is evident that in that
planet we behold q globe which is now
undergoing some of the vast physical
changes dimly limited Mt in the begin
ming of the the book Of Genesis as hav.
ing preceded the qualification of the
globe upon which We dwell.
Saturn, too, has of late exhibited in.
dlcations OF the operation of enormous
forces which show that il is in a condi.
ton very different from ssiaia.s css .she Garth.
A new belthas appeared near its equator.
which can be seen with a comparatively
small telescope, and which strikingly
recalls the appearance o fthe belts of Is
giant brother Jupiter.
The astronomers have only begun the
conquest Of these worlds.
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