Show owr diliver ry arlia I 1 ro vh matwy T t v 1 l 4 t Mo lutte tell us son on and tit tile stul 6 ovonial ly ara burnout oo 00 and dead cele cal Ulal watal bcd ls jt niad then ad wa 0 abitol like As to W know no w what a to bei omeY the tile it I 1 if S R pretty well a that in nature outbid liot Js i lo 10 load and may airey fairly airly tho lh thep there 11 1 lie 0 o cupl versal cean e tery where defunct stellar boylu arit nr rest i for example rc reaches actie tah end and df span it will 14 ottila po jagt yet vot im its arni life to doth will nt not fr i top iti its onward journey in tho 1 q of hittite at it Us its reent rato ul 01 neuilly hilla a city just so roust must bo be alitt atun tho be whole fifty mua abu thal are I 1 1 3 brough the iele telescope scope anil and go tho c antless 0 illions te dupio is jalo tange but iu ili thia this matter of a arnt out and slid dead purk fumie wa must re bomber amber tho ahn we can look at stars any cloar clear night that may havo have boen been well donned d bufore our kreut great luminary wua waz born if it this of sun enlik ilg aa as you to lutyi yi bo ongoing to 10 looff long doert it not ot logically follow thai that thoro there tire at this very moment spec dead and dark of stars wan daring deria through the mimy astronomers believe this and none of them hivo hv eo so far argued aarn lost tho the effary athis bol true truit 0 o may be looking loo kinc directly in abo lino line of a dead and dark eta a an up thre bt atcon con two bright and livin 11 one when we sitf nt tho beads Ds clear fear winter nighta but here L la 18 un th bucht raf V those these immense dead bodies ara aro I 1 thus through ie to thoro there not a possibility that one of I 1 1 them inny inn y tao 1 r into the confines con tines of o 0 cavi M steffi play havoc with brood of dranou and ilias possibility hai has boon by some astronomer astronomers but bilt tha mutter matter 1 one that neither this nor iho the next one at least trouble itsell about for Fort thle bitt reason the approach app of such a body would 4 b deta detected clad by oy astronomers astron omera before it cot goi within a it hundred bearo earr of travel from rom us even uit moved at the tune rate latoof of half a million mile miles per day I 1 the presence pree ence of the planet neptune nearly three billion miles aray away was ra deteL detected ted by bv certain perturbations hat bat astronomers noted in the movements r of uranus now it is safe to wilume that a body eo so large as a burnt out sun comine coining toward the solar system would by its attraction attra cUon affect our outlying planets and also 1 ilie tile sun when at least twenty times far farier ier away than neptune is at the rate neptune travels in its orbit it would take him about t twenty e t y five year to roach reach the sun ailing in a straight line if ho he should ta take a 0 a sudden impulse to visit hie his parent een eton allowing for a spectral tramp star to take a fancy for calling on us ur it would take it certainly not less than T hundred years to got here after the astronomers would have detected its intentions oven even if it should como at sunu speed of a hundred and sixty million miles in a year but this question as to what becomes of the dead stars is ono one that the astron omera omers seem very chary about discussing they can cee see what they believe to be the process of star making constantly going on but they cannot see any dead and dark stars and there is nothing bit analogy anu losy logy conclusion and conjecture u upon pon which to base an opinion one thing a certainly know there is no stellar spectre now near enough to the solar system to set bore bom in the lifetime of anybody now living on tb earth |