| Show OF THE r f newcombe New combs announcement in A alag nl ag and scientific press san alco that there is strong evl evi to support the supposition that telescopes have actually t the e utmost boundaries of our the universe to view Is to say least startling the probability ie q declares that the small stars antty VY discovered look small not on because of their vast distance from iut ut because of their inferior size re to Is no more beyond they are worlds in the large gys of which our earth Is only a small J the general outline of this universe using usi the word in a limited sense sen seis as known it encloses an enormous disc in which our solar system is not far from the center this disc has a diameter tour four or five times its thickness but the length is only a matter of conjecture because the distance to many stars has not been measured the distance from one side of the universe to the other is given as from to light years that is to say it is as many miles as a ray of light can travel in f from rom twenty to thirty thousand years at a rate of miles a second some gome idea of the immense length of this road may be formed from the statement that the diameter of the earths orbit miles would from one of the most distant stars appear so small that the most delicate appliances would fail to measure it there is probably not a more overwhelming wh elming proof of the incalculable power and the inscrutable wisdom of the designer and constructor of this th Is world than that furnished by astronomy among its devotees have always been found the greatest exponents of that faith which is the opposite of agnosticism both in its ancient and modern forms |
