Show TH Ill STAR IS HUGE I LASSES SHOW tl I I lr fer ter cr in in Hercules Hol Holds r Lights Man Many lany Y BI Big g b as Our Sun hington D. D C C. C Sept 27 The 7 Tha t t the bend ben of ot tho handle of ot tho the dipper Is known aa M In- In leant nt thou though h it looks In Its small small- tit dt radiates radiates 8 more Ulan than a as a 5 much lJ light ht as tho the sun eun and Is times us nil far away awny William Joseph Showalter In the not anal Magazine Its has brill joa to travel three quarters of or a ato ato I 7 to reach tho the earth The Tho com com- mass masH to two t of or Its members Is r times as Teat great as ns that of oC the tho sun un swing around their common cen- cen gravity every evory twenty days lowinG tho line IIno of tho pointers ard ono ones one's s eye eyo picks up Polaris north stir star tho the only bright star atar b neighborhood ning down upon us ns from a point pont Ht t midway between the tho zenith ant and northern horizon In tho the latitude of oC Ington this humble star of tho the thod thed d magnitude tells tolls of or its Tot Tet it Is so distant that the tho en entering tho the eye eo n ns as one oneat oneat i at It today left it forty five years ind nd have bavo ben traveling trl at the rate ore ire than miles a minute ich oh us ns Three Stars stan Look tc Like One Onet t f on one star indeed but three a three a asun sun sun Bun la Polaris Until recently to be a a. double star but hut hewer ewer high power telescopes reveal the brighter jf of the tho two companions i closer companion of or Its own ithe zenith lI J Is Vega t the tho bluish bluish- lul h- h afar Biar o 01 of the tuo liMIt first magnitude that i down with beautiful brilliancy ncy the constellation Lyra tho the harp doubt In Identifying Vega other other- Alpha Alpha- can bo be dispelled by lag InS the close equilateral triangle lo d by It and Its Us companions Ep- Ep tand Zeta Zota this the tho only ie le of or Its kind in fn tho w whole bolo Ens ns as I with the tho unaided una eyo eye we viewed un n from the tho distance of oC Vega It Id I L appear as one ono of or the tho dimmest j Vega Is said to bo be eight million n ns as s far tar from us as wo we arc aro from un an C Cluster r Scents Small I little past the tho zenith Is the cantlon con con- fat Ion tion Hercules It Isn't a n group roup not a n single star In lag InC brighter than tho the third mago magno mag- mag no o 0 but it has hus an aD easily found toun fl ro of or five tI stars star base fed d toward the tho north On the west nest of ot this trapezoid about third one-third to o distance from Crom the tho base bac Is what pars a to bo ho a faint taint and fUzz fuzzy little visible only on the clearest nights rain n n. hl high h power telescope on It you will ace one ono of or the finest star stac lers ers era in all loll the tho heavens hea photograph of or this doter to with tho the bI big sixty foot Mount on reflector that it is up of at moro than stars very cry cryor r or of them as S big and as bright an M wn sun sue Photographing tho clus- clus with plates sensitive sensitive- to blue of 5 bang then with others d 4 1 indicates that thoy they are aro giant red yellow suns Bun like liko Arcturus and res w far tar away away- they are can c not bo he tor Ifor they are aro too remote for tor meas- meas Sont ant with tho the finest instrument yet ct ed It Is s certain however that tare nt at least so distant that the tho coming to tho earth from them year car may havo started on Its hurt hurt- Journey through space about bo t the theof lor of Joshua's Josua's conquest of ot other I-other words ir if a space space rt- rt eye eyo on ono of oC tho the stars of br this ules ulea cluster clustor could bo be 1001 looking ln down downto jho to earth today it ml might ht bo be watch- watch the tho armies of oC the tho Lord encircling doomed city tho west of or Hercules easily lo- lo 0 r by continuing tho the curve cur of or the lie Ie 0 of ot the tho great dipper for tor a a. dis- dis V approximately equal to that J separates Polaris from Crom the tho near- near is Arcturus king boo of at Bootes the Hunter Huntera aa a a. deep Jeep orange color and of oC tho the order order of oe brightness Arcturus Is a that hat makes our own pale In lit coma com com- oil n a as ns a tallow dip pales before an lamp amp Indeed it In Is thought to toto toto to GOO times us as much light as our l t |