Show PARALLAX OF A fixed STAR for some of our readers re ailers aliers perhaps per laps un all explanation of the nature of I 1 the tile disbot discovery ery cry mentioned may be necessary tiie tile tha J parallee par altex aliex is the tile angle formed by two iles lles lines iines ties drawn froni front different points of observation the distance between these thebe points and hild the tile angles angies formed by the line between them and arid the tile lines drawn respectively ively froin fruin shem them to the cl et being ascertained the tiie parallax may be measured arld and hence tho tile distance of the object noy be found owing to the immense distance of the fixed i tars stars their pitr parallax ailak allai has here heretofore hereto tolore lore lord been held map reliably reci Ably minute nii nil nute nule arid and no data for calculating tiie tha betance distance could be ascertained the difficulty difficult however seems i now ov to have been heen overcome and is one of or the greatest discoveries in tiie the history of astronomy T this it is important and arid va lualle a problem lenI ieni which lias has or so mail maii many y benfu centimes cen times ies les been un on object 0 ot inquiry BRIOD I ast astronomers lias has been selvid solve d by professor bo bossel isel of irali his ol 01 ions were made oil ou the double star no 61 in tile tiie constellation cenus whose distance lie he ascertained to be times tile radius of the earths orbit or fa trillions and arid i billions of miles pallas in round numbers condou globe globo |