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Show ! To Learn Fate of Sun ! It is by means of new tnrs that a-I a-I tronomers hope to establish what will , be the ultimate fate of the sun and its I attendant planets. I-.verv star and the sun Is a star, is rushing through - space at enormous speed. The sun is traveling toward ega with a vi-loc-, ity of 12 miles a second. OTi -r stars are known which possess n speed of ,.S0 miles a second. There are in the sky creat clouds nf dan; meteors such as obstruct our view of the m(!;v wnv Y hen a star hits one of these clouds there is a flash of fire as It tears its wav through. If the swarm is small the star may escape, but if it Is large the star is destroved and Its fragments frag-ments go to increase the cloud that caused its destruction. The KngHsh astronomer who first observed the r.ew star, says that It represents a catastrophe catas-trophe of enormous mngnitude In Inconceivably In-conceivably remote fields. i |