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Show " ""' " ' ' i STARS OF THS MILKV WAY. Dliiances, Computed In Hundreds of Mlllloni of Mllei. apeaklnj; roitRhly, wo have- roason, from the data so far available, to believe be-lieve that the stars of tho Milky Way are sltintod at a distance between lOO.OOO.OOO and 200,000.000 tlmea tho distance of the sun At distances loss than thin It seems likely that the star are distributed through space with mime approach to uniformity. We may state as a general conclusion, Indicated by several muthoils of making mak-ing the t'Htlmato, that nearly all the stars which we can nee with our telescopes tele-scopes ire contained within a sphere not likely to be much morn than 200,-000,000 200,-000,000 limes the dlstanco or tho sun. The Inquiring reader may ask an-othur an-othur question Granting that all tho Htars that we can see aro contained within this limit, may there not be any number or stars without the limit which aie Invisible only because they are too tat jway to be hihhi? Harper's Har-per's Magazine |