How large are some of our neighbor suns? Alpha Centauri, our
nearest neighbor, with its double sun, gives twice as much
light as we receive; great Sirius equals sixty-three of our
suns; the Pole Star eighty-six. “Think of an eighty-fold sun.
However, some are still more astonishing: Vega blazes with the
light of three hundred and forty-four suns; Capella with the
light of four hundred and thirty; Arcturus with the light of
five hundred and sixteen, while mighty Alcyone, the glorious
center around which we all, suns and worlds, are supposed to
circle, blazes with the light of twelve thousand of our suns!”
If our little sun can boast of a family with worlds of such
beauty and greatness as Venus and Earth and glorious Saturn and
mighty Jupiter, how shall we measure the number, the splendor
and the magnitude of the worlds which circle about such centers
as Sirius, Vega, Capella, Arcturus and Alcyone?--JAMES H.
ECOB.
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