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Show Is THIS a NEW WORLD That Is Being FORMED? WHEN Prof. V. M. Slipher of Harvard, stationed at the Flagstaff (Aria.) Observatory, Ob-servatory, peered through his telescope a few nights ago, much to hia surprise he saw a faint cloud-like, self-luminous mass of attenuated attenu-ated matter situated far outside the solar system, sys-tem, traveling at 1250 miles a second. Astronomers Astrono-mers say that this rate of speed is twice aa great aa the fastest nebula yet discovered and 1000 times greater than the average speed of the lowly low-ly star. In fact it ia the greatest velocity known . to astronomy. - Thia speeding mass was identified aa the nebula neb-ula Dreyer No. 684, in the Constellation of Cetus, and it ia showing its starry heela in flight away from tha earth. Harvard astronomical savanta are manifesting much interest in the matter becsuse of the nebu- la's supposed great distance from the stars ordinarily ordi-narily aeen and because of the tremendous speed at which it is traveling. ' It ia aaid that astronomers never yet have found a nebula which is a swirling mass of gaaea and likely to Become new world, which may become inhabitable, like the earth that traveled at gTeater speed than 1000 kilometers second, and those of them who are at stations of high altitude and with more powerful than the ordinary ordi-nary telescope are keeping close watch to gather details concerning the latest find in nebulae. The glass shows that thia nebula ia receding, but nothing definite yet can be established aa to ita lateral movements. Not even the faintest glimmer of ita light can be aeen from the earth with the naked ays. To the smaller telescope it seems a blur. |