Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-09-17
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| is about In the center Of the milky way.
Maxwell, Kelvin and otha"s have rea-
soned from the lnotic theory. that the
radius Of the milky way, considered
roughly as sphere. is about 1000 times
the distance that it is from the earth
to the nearest fixed stare.
| Tho nearest fixed star Is the ono known
ms alpha Ccntaurl," and this is 2os 900
astronomical units away. Tho "astronom-
ical unit" Is the distance from the Garth
to the sun, namely over $1,000 ,OOO miles.
40 that If the circumference of the milky
way is 1000 times as far as the nrarest
fixed star. and that star Is t2G 600 times
as far away as the sun, YOU will begin to
appreciate what vast distance II Is to
| the limits Of the milky why.
| Ry both methods of figuring It IS csti-
| mated that the number of stars Of SUNS
IN tho milky wav is about 1.oooOOo. go.
There Is good reason to suppose that
| these suns In many cases may he tho CEN
ter Of n solar system analogous TO our
own planetry family. A billion stars IN
the milky way-that Is n good round fig
ure 20 remember
Now. having stepped first to our sun
H'"omO miles away. then to the nearest
| fixed star-that is to our nearest neigh
boring sun-226o00 times as far--and then
to the milky WaY--l0Oa times farther-let
us take still another step outward into
the eXpanse of space which surrounds
us. Let us stop another 1000 times farther
than the milky way and SOC what we
come to. We then come to what are
called the spiral ncbulas, each one OF
which is supposed to bo another milky
way, only 1900 times farther off.
We have already learned somoth,nr
about the great nebula Of Orion-which
has now passed ont of the neht sky and
will not rcappear TN next winter II
You will talic = small telescope and peer
around through the heavens YOU will dis
cover h"r and there faint nmy patches
OF light which are evidently not stars.
\ larger telescope will show that these
patches of light are either clusters Of a
large number Of single stars or they arc
OF hazy nature. as If formed Of glowing
gas or light.
I'm man" cases these noluIa have n
spiral form This is the case, for example.
with til" wcll-kuown ono in the consteila-
ton OF Canes Nonatici or the hunting
docs vh"h Is now visible \ per
son docs not have to be great astrono-
NOR to see that this mass Of matter is in
motion. for the spiral form of it tells this
as plainly As anything could. Hero Is q
"twister' surely. Probably tho milky way.
seen from tho Same distance, would look
very much the same.
Ana this ncbula Is fairly typical If tho
whole family. though many Of them are
so far distant that their spiral form Is
not noticeable. From series of photo
graphs OF tho heavens made with tho
great G0-lnch reflector nj the Mt Wilson
observatory some Very rcma rkahlo CON
illusions have recently been arrived at by
Prof. Faith. II wound talk. ~. ,,or.,i,,. =,
make such observations Of tho entire
heavens, for, bear In mind the moro pow
"rfuI tho telescope is tn" srnalIor rotc,
OF sky IT takes IN
50 some 10 typical spots scattered over
the SKY we're selected, and long exposure
photographs Zone hour. with tho fastest
pIates) were made Of theso typical re-
gl"ns. WIN TINT great instrument n1vr-
'aus or very faint stars woro Registered
N"I'h could not he seen by the human
eye even ny the most powerful instrument
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