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Show 1MHE5S1TV OF M'ACK. THI'.Ut-.NBOCS IHCTANCK Ok STAHS F1I0M TUi: iHSTIl AMI KOH IUCII OTIIKK. For a kmR jxrkrj attntDunien uu-huco-fully i-ttilmvortsj to le tiTtllittu tins ilblnuce lltfcti Hie larn and Ilia t-uttli, and it H oi y u-itliiu a cotnparallvflj- t-liort time tltu IntertTtlnj ruli!eiii cnlt be Kikl t.i luye Istin Kolvesl, fay thu Aature. Tlie ilUUnro u hitli Mr'ar-atoi Mr'ar-atoi us from llmtiearotetarls, ar-conliMS ar-conliMS if tllo rrcvut Ircturu l.y IW. Nidiol. aliout 204 IKK) times greater tltnti tlio dUtanre from the earth to the sin, or S5,,0M it miles multlpilea l.y aH,(Hl. AliJu, In the couttelUtion of tiie Cctl-Uur, Cctl-Uur, Is tlie btar nearest tha eartli. 1U light occuiJea three whole years In traverelng the uiMaure whlrlt warales us from the lit the Lllukiti orb; ill other U0J.S, shouU AI4ia 1 liluttetl out of x-ifctence x-ifctence today, trc nould be well into the summer of l.Sstt lufore the It.-ltihllauta It.-ltihllauta of thin mundane btlitre uould be aware teat AljJia nolat.-grr nolat.-grr existed. Vet lljlit travtls K rapidly as to occupy no ta-rcei tlule sjatccof time In Hashing around otr gkibc. If the sun were traniorted to (he place occupied by I his, the nearest star, the rat circular disi, which in moruIsgriMsmajefllcally above the horizon and In evening occupies a considerable time in dt-tceudiog dt-tceudiog entirely below tlie ciiiiie line, would have dimensions puny iu tlielrittsIguitlcuMce. Co1IomI a-. theun appears t u, it would, wtte It poviible fur it to exchange mrl-thinswiili mrl-thinswiili Ali)id, take the I.lektcl-tcope I.lektcl-tcope (o make it apjxsir xl a tar of the first magnitude. |