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DIARY OF LOCAL. STAR
EVENTS.
TODAY.
(October ED.)
-Opon Harbour Baco
GAZING
THE STUPENDOUS WONDERS OF THE
UNIVERSE
Rotary Club Tifin, Lane, Craw- A REVIEW BY THE ASTRONOMER ROYAL
ford's Restaurant, 1 p.m.
University Arts Association, 8:30
p. The Rev. Fr. "G. Byrno, 8.J.,
on "The City of Rome, Where His- tories Moot."
Golf and Bridge Tournament at Shok-D Club, held by May Road Branch, Ministering.. Children's League,
(SIR FRANK DYSON.)
In view of the historia gathering" Reast 1,500 million years, us this in of scientists in London at the Brit-known to be the age of stratified ssh Araociation, Sir Frank Dyson, rocko,
writing in the London Morning The only way in which this great Post," shows the inconceivable vast supply can bò maintained is by en- Craigengower Cricket Club, Ang, the desociation's life, with some the nature of theas is not under
nces of the knowledge attained durergy from sli-atomic sources, but, nual General Meeting.
Queen's Theatre: One Romantic plimpacs of the vietas promised by, stood. A very interesting feature Night.".
World Theatre: Gold Rush?? Star Theatre: "In Gay Madrid." King's Theatre: "The House of the Arrow." Steve
Central Theatre: Women."!
"Men Without
Prince's Theatre: Untamed." Majestic Theatre: Anybody's Woman.
European Mail:Outward: Lurópa ria Siberia (Pilsua) 4.30 p.m.
ted
European Mail:-Inwardi Europa via Siberia (Duisburg).
Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.
Tides: High at 246 and 8.10; Low at 11.48 and 10,41,
WEDNESDAY.
(October: 21.)
Nelson Day (1805). Navy League Ceremony at Ceno. Laph, 11-a.m.
Hookey: Club บ Argylls, U.S.R.C. ground, 6.13 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "One Romantis Night.
rahan petatione World Theatre: "The Mark of Zorro."
Star Theatre: "In Gay Madrid." Central Theatre: "Men Without Wornen.""
King's Theatre: "Six Cylinder Love."
Majestic Theatre: Anybody's Woman,"i
Tea Dance at King's Restaurant Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel.""
Tides:High at 4.30 and 8.13 Low at 123.
THURSDAY.
(October 22.)
Legislative Council Meeting.
Queen's Theatre: "Eyes of the World."
World Theatre: "Mark Zorro.
i
the future.
sciences of host and slectricity were A hundred years ago, when the
in their babyhood, astronomy was already a young giant,
The great discovery of the Solar System had been made, and the planets were no longer, more points of light wandering among the fixed stars, but bodies like the Earth cir- cling round the central Suni
in the Sun is the periodić growth; and gradual disappearance of the spota every elovon years, associated
Auror and magnetic changes on the Earth,
19 Million Millions Equals One- Parsed.
The genius of Herschel, with his great telescopes, had discovered the vastness and the general form of
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The main features of their move the reasonable assumption that the ments were deduced from the law differences in magnitude of the of "gravitation, and gradually the stars wore mainly caused by differ minutest details were found to be ences in distance, and that, Sirius consequences of that law. This had a parallax of ons second of Nautical Almanac can now predict are, or was at a distance of the positions of Sun, Moon, and 29 million milling Bules, a distance planets for many year ahead with which astronomers for convenance
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it was not all a few rears; large nów planeta, Neptune and after 1831 that the distance of a Pluto, have been found, and also star was actually measured.
No more than a thousand small planete atar has been found nearer than and a dozen new moons. These disono parsec, and within five parera. coveries have followed from the in- about 35 atars have been discovered, ereased power of telescopes and the and probably there are not many application of photography.
more within this limit, de extensive During this ecatury the greatest search has been made with argo astronomien diccoveries have con-photographic telescopes..
of the Sun and stars and the extent Sun in brightness, others thousands cerned the nature and constitution]· Some of these stars are like the
of the Sidereal Universe.
We Sum Up the Sun..
of times fainter. A model of the stars in our vicinity (on the scale of 2 inches to a million miles)
The Sun has been found to con- I would be 40 or 30 balls varying in tain 57 of the 99 chemical elements," size from pegs to cricket, balls insido including all those most common on the Earth, the Sun's diameter be of the Earth, such as Hydrogen, Oxy-ing about two inches on this scale. gen. Nitrogen, Carbon, Aluminium, Many stars, though only a small Iron, and there is no reason to sup- proportion, are much larger than pose that there is anything in the the Sun. Thir has been inferred Sun: not in the Earth.
from their luminosities, but recont ly the diameter of a few of the largest have been measured and are found to be 200 or 300 times na large as the Sun.
Star Thantro: "Navy Blues Central Theatre: Virtuous Hus band."
King's Theatre: "Six Cylinder Love."
Majestic Theatre:- "Mr." Lomon of Orange."
Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.
European
Mail:-Outward Europe vin Vancouver (Empress of Rusia) 5 p.m.; Europa vie Siberis (Empress of Russia) 6 p.m. p
Tider:-High_at"6.01 and 825; Low at 12.01 and 1.08.
The temperature of its surface hna, been determined as nearly 6,000 degrees C."and theoretical research- es indicate that this increases to wards the centre, to 40 million degrees at least.
The Barth has received heat from it at about the present rate for at
The models in the Science Mus eum show this very vividly, as well as the differences of colour indicat ing temperature near the surface.
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