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Show SUNS AND WORLDS IN MAKING Astronomers Admitted to "Workshop of tho Universe" to View Won- ders Therein. j We look today on the things of a century, a millennium, ago. Light traveling trav-eling at the rute of 18G.300 miles a second requires more than four yenrs to come from the nearest star, perhaps thousands and tens of thousands of years from the farthest. Hence In every case we see not what Is, but what was. Thousands of nebulae have been dis-' dis-' covered in the heavens. The spiral pattern of some few nebulae has long been confirmation of the theory that they are the real beginners of a solar system. But there has recently come in much evidence of the spiral character charac-ter of other nebulae, that the conclusion conclu-sion seems forced upon us that practically practi-cally all are in a state of rotation, and are hence supplying the centrifugal force to throw off the rings which roll themselves up into planets revolving about central suns. When opportunity is given to look directly down upon a nebulae there results re-sults startling evidence of Its being in rotation. There Is no other way of explaining its remarkable details of structure. Some look like the propeller propel-ler blades of a motorboat ; some are actually ac-tually caught in the act of throwing off rings, which are seen condensing at certain centers, rolling themselves into planets, henceforth to travel around their suns. The great nebulae In Andromeda An-dromeda gives striking evidence that it Is working out another and a greater solar system than our own. In short, it seems that in studying the nebulae we are being admitted to the very workshop of the universe, and are permitted to watch the actual process pro-cess of turning out worlds. Nothing In the heavens is better fitted to fill the very soul with awe. As in the case of the "fixed stars," our lives are too brief, too feeble our eyes, to detect the actual motion Frederick Campbell's "Suns and Worlds in the Making." |