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Show PLlHilEJfAt HASSTAGGEilG OlijSIOflS Many Star in Southern Hemuphere Are Brighter Than Sun CAMBRUXJK, Mass, Oct. . The large magellance cloud, a. group of slur end nrmtne vlwthle from the Southern hemisphere, which Is believed be-lieved to ba a sort of small universe In Itself, proves to be of staggering dimensions. It Ig announced from the Harvard college observatory. The first measurements ot tha distance- and the also of the cloud, accomplished by Harvard astronueoers front . photographic photo-graphic plates made at their Peruvian station, have established thst It is 1 10.000 light yeara from the earth and that ts linear diameter about 16.000 light years. A light year is six trillion miles. The large magellance cloud, which resembles in apvearancs the milky way. la aeparatrd from that system of stars of which our aolar system Is a small part. Photometrlo measures of the magellanle stars Indicate that many are actually far brighter than any yet found In our solar ayatem. liundreda of these stare. It la said, were found to exceed tha brlghtneaa of the sun nv 10 Otto times |