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less other specks.
Next, gravtational attraction continues be-
tween the tiny specks of matter and they draw
nearer, join and gradually grow and grow. Squeez-
ing together they form still larger bodies until
they reach the size of asteroids few miles
across. They still dark and invisible.
However, as more and more matter is at
tracted to them the pressure and temperatures in
the center of growing body become higher and
higher Eventually - after cons of time - the
whole mass begins to glow.
Thus massive star is born whose chief char
acteristic is enormous size, dull lumnescence and
low temperature
DR.. Whpple suggests that such massive and
cool stars as Zeta Aurigae were formed in just
this way Indeed the extensive atmosphere of
stars like Zeta Aurlgae may very we'll consist or
the residual dust clouds that have not yet been at
tracted to the central body of the mother star
1t is not surprising that when the dust of a
dark cloud in space has joined to form a star, some
residue Of the dust should still be observable out
side the star itself. So it may be with Zeta
Aurigae
Do not think that such star formation is fire.
quent or easy. Everything hinges on quiescence
in space and undisturbed conditions for ex-
tremely long periods of time AS long as the stel-
lar pool is quiet the process of growth can go on,
but any currents or rpples can break up the soil
tude that is essential.
In its new view of stellar evolution from mere
cosmic dust, astronomy is coming around to a
modern equivalent of ancient Greek thinking
the origin of the Universe Without experiment,
and by speculation only, the Greeks envisioned
the order of Nature being created out of Chaos.
And that is just about what DR.. Whippe pic
lures happening in the dark clouds of outer
space insignificant dust particles, moving at
random and in chaos, join each other and grow
larger and larger until they achieve state of
order and becomes star that bursts into flame
to be seen by earth.
The curious old drawing, shown on this page,
from 18th century book the ancient Greek
mythology of Ovid, was drawn to show the battle
between the forces of Chaos and the forces of
light heat, and humidity, to bring order into
chaotic world.
If modern artist undertook to make SYM
bolic illustration of DR.. Whpples hypothesis of
stellar genesis out of cosmic chaos. the finished
picture probably wouldn't be much different.
The dust Of cosmc space has other important
meanings for modern astronomy. Some scientists
suggest that cosmic dust may explain the REDEEM
ing of the light from distant stars just as sun
light at sunset is made more red by the scattering
effect of the dust in the earth's atmosphere.
In fact the reddening of light from the most
distant nebula-the famous so-caled RED Shift"
has been used to picture universe that is ex-
more astronomers are now wondering if this is
really so.
It used to be said and is still mentioned fire.
quently that the reddening of starlight is due
to the motion of these distant stars away from the
earth and the sun. This would explain the red
effect by well-known principle of science called
the Doppler shift.
The conclusion of this observation was that
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