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From Our Little Solar System to
the Far Starry Limits.
SOME MARVELOUS DISTANCES
The Stellar Universe as We Know It
and What It Means In the Matter of
Miles to Rcaeh Its Boundaries From
the Center of Our Own Sun.
It is worth while milking an effort to
picture to ourselves the vast extent of
the starry system in which we reside.
Having Rallied some faint notion oi
the extent of the lesser solar system,
which occupies a small corner of the
stellar system, we must work outward
from that hoginning. Let us take for
our unit of measurement the space
which separates the earth from the
sun and let the 9:2.000,000 miles of this
distance be represented in our minds
by a single Inch. In proportion the
sun Itself must be pictured by a tiny
ball less than one hundredth part of an
Inch in diameter, while our earth
must be a mere speck less than one
ten-thousandth of an Inch in diameter.
And this little sun and this minute
earth must lie Just an inch asunder.
Following out the an me Ideu. Mer
cury and Venus, being closer to the
sun than we nre, have to be less than
an Inch away from him. while Jupiter
will be five inches off. Saturn will be
ten inches off. Uranus will be over
nineteen inches off. Neptune will be
almost thirty inches off. Then the so
lar system as a whole, leaving only
out of the question certain comets
which travel farther, will be inclosed
In a circle less than two yards in diam
eter.
The question arises next, What will
lie the proportionate size of the stellar
system on tills same scale of measure
ment? If the solar system Is to he
comprised with a hoop not two yards
across how wide a space should we
alloxv to the surrounding system of
stars, “our universe?” How near will
he the nearest of outlying stars? And
the answer is sutiiclently startling, if
the sun is reckoned to he one inch
away from our earth. If Neptune Is
reckoned to he less than three feet
away from the sun, then on the same
scale the star which lies closest of all
outer stars in the whole universe to us.
Alpha Ceutaurl by name, must be
reckoned as lying at a distance of
about three and a half miles. And be
tween the two—nothing; at least noth
ing in the shape of a star. An occa
sional comet may lag slowly along in
the darkness, finding its way from one
sun system to another, and dark bod
ies. cooled suns, may possibly Boat
here or there unseen by us. hut of
stars radiant with beat and light none
is found in that wide area.
Astronomical writers sometimes talk
of stars “In the vicinity” of the sun.
and this is what is meant by "vicin
ity.” Think of the distances implied
Our whole solar system Is first brought
down into a small circle two yards
across every Inch in those yards stand
ing for more than 00.000.000 miles—
and then on every side and above and
below Is an encompassing void of
three and a half miles, every inch of
those miles again representing more
than 00,000,000 miles. And then we
come upon one gleaming star. Only
one quite so near. Another star in the
sun’s “vicinity.” known as 01 Cygnl.
would lie at a distance of seven miles,
and the brilliant Sirius would be over
ten miles off. Others must be placed
t distances of twenty miles, fifty
miles, 100 miles. It is easy to start
with a list of these figures. It is not
easy to say where one slum Id stop
That the starry system lias limits we
do not doubt, hut to detine those limits
is not possible. On such u scale as is
given above those limits certainly
would not lie within a distance of UK)
miles nor of 1,000 miles.
it Is believed that some dim stars,
barely to be detected, may be lO.OtX)
times as far away ns our sun's nearest
neighbor. Alpha Ceutaurl. and this at
once gives, even on our much reduced
scale, u line from the center of 35.000
miles. Suppose that the limits of the
Stellar system lay somewhere about
there Thirty tive thousand miles each
way from tin* center would menu a di
a meter for the whole of 70. IKK) miles
Imagine a starry system 70,000 tulles
across from side to side, each inch in
those miles representing 92.000.000 of
real miles, and somewhere in the midst
of it our small solar system, just two
yards across, separated from all other
stars by a wide blank of three or four
mik^s.
That would he stupendous enough.
But we have no reason whatever for
supposing that the limits of our uni
verse do lie there The true boundaries
of the stellar system may he twice as
far. four times as far, ten times as far
We do not even know with certainty
that our solar system is placed any
where near Its center, though this
seems rather likely. Far off as the
boundary reaches In one direction. It
may reach much further in another di
rection .—Chambers' Journal.
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