Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-19
WONDERS OF THE SUI
Some Facts About That co|oooa|
 Fiery Globe.
AN IDEA OF ITS GREAT SIZE.

Our Earth and Moon, as Far Apart e
 They Now Ars, Could Badly Meve
 Around In lie Flaming interIor-oems
 of the substaness it Contains.
 Astronomy does not always consist of night studies. There are some thinss to be seen after darkness Is gone, both with glass and unassisted eye. The dear old moon often gives us . good daylight view of herself. looking as if haggard, sleepy and disgusted after be- ing out overnight. The star Venus has often been seen in the afternoon. Some comets are on record as having ap- preached so near the earth that the same could be said of them for weeIrs at time.
 But of course the great day attrac- tion is the ruler of our own family cf brother and sister planets, the sun.
 Although medium sized" as coni- pared to many of the fixed starr, our sun is no lightweight, being about l 300, 900 times as large as the earth. If some great force could put us in the center of that ultra mammoth giobe, and the moon also Qkeeping her at the same distance from us as she now is), and there was another moon nearly aD far away from her, the earth, and the two moons and all the space between them could still be contained in the great, sparkling sun.
 It's distance from us is 92y607. 600 miles, a very tedious little journsy if we could make it by customary meth ods. You can find plenty of accounts in books of how long 1t would take q railroad train to get to 1t, and you can ascerts sn it yourself by little figuring. You will learn, for instance, that linn. ited express travelling 1000 miles per day would arrive at Sun station fn about 254 years, during which tin,s there would probably be few deaths on the train. If when the engine ar rived 1t could give blast of the whis- tie loud enough to be heard here, the people at this end of the line would have to wait fourteen years before the signal arrived if it proceeded at the usual velocity of sound.
 But the eye, most wonderful of con- veyances, can traverse all that dis tance in between eight and nine min- utes. It takes that length of time for light to pass between the two worlds.
 What is the material of which that great fiery globe is composed? Tho following substances have been detect ed by the spectroscope and may be considered as surely part of 1t: Bari um, calcium, chromium, cobalt, copper. hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manga- nese, nickel, platinum, silicon, silver, sodium, titanium, vanadium. It ie thought that the following substances are also there, although the proof, while strong, is not absolute: Alumini- um, cadmium, carbon, lead, molybde- mum, palladium, uranium and zinc. IL is singular fact that gold has not yet been discovered in this great golden orb.
 The fact that "all is action, all is mo- tion," not only in ''this world of ours," 1" but throughout our entire universe, il Illustrated by the sun, for, while all the planets of our system are revolving around 1t, 1t is not itself still: 1t would seem to be having waltz of its own. It turns on it's axis, 1t has another 1no- tion about the center of gravity of the solar system, and, besides. 1t is on its way, with it's flock of planets. toward some distant point in space at tho rate of 060 miles per minute. Th0se facts and figures sound strange and hardly believable, but they have been demonstrated mathematicaIly over and over again by astronomers of different times and lands.
 One of the most interesting thingS to be seen upon the sun is Its spots. for this great king of planets is not entirely immaculate. Some think theae are caused by cyclones, some that they, are eruptions from within the suns surface, some by cool matter from ns- teors falling into the hotter atmos- phere. and this last idea would seem the most sensible one. Such q great flaming furnace as the sun apparent ly is, giving out life to a colony of plan- ets must have food, and possibly tho great heat giving, life imparting crea- ture may when spots appear be taking It's rations.
 These spots, often thousands of miles in extent, although they look 50 small from earth, can many of them be seen with an opera glass, but. 1t is neces- sary to combine the instrument with smoked glass, which can be fastened upon 1t with rubber bands either at tho eye or view end.-Brooklyn Eagle.
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