Show THE star alcyone is so remote from the earth that the light which now arrives at our eyes even though it speeds on its way at the rate of one hundred and eighty thousand miles a second has not improbably taken a century or more than a century to reach us TIIE ruddy color of stars is thought by II erschel to be due to an tinge in the soil by others it is attributed tri buted to peculiarities of the atmosphere and clouds lambert suggests that the color of the vegetation on mars may be red instead of green |