PHE KUSKO TIMES
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Kusko Times, MfcGratb, Alaska.
MCGRATH, ALASKA, MAR. 19, 1921
MEASURING A STAR
The shoulder of t he giant Orion has
iafceiy' been-measured, with the aid of
the 100 inch telescope at Mt. Wilson
observatory, in California. The shoul
der is the star called Betelgeuze, which
means, in Arabic, the giant's shoulder.
The ancients imagined this most con
spicuous constellation to be the figure
of' a belted giant.
Betelgeuze is a bright red star,
which has for some time been suspect
ed to be the largest of all the stars that
are near enough to be measured at all.
Measuring this one was co easy task.
With »tho moot*, delicate instruments
Stoat could be made, and with the help
of'this most powerful of telescopes, the
angle which had to be measured ac
eurately proved to be only .04(i of a
second of arc—hardly visible to the
unaided eye.
The star is so distant that its light
requires hundreds of years to reach
fchte earth, and we see it; not as it is
now, but as it was about two hundred
years before- Columbus - discovered
America.
Working out the delicate angie ov
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the methods of geometry and trigo
nometry, the astronomers find the star
on Orion’s shoulderstrap to be .109,000,
000 miles in diameter. It is the largest;
star that has ever been measured, j
though there tnav be many larger ones
at greater distances.
What a baby our own mighty star,
1 the sun, is when compared with Betel
geure may be imagiued when we re-j
member that the sun’s diameter is only
866,000 miles. If the sun were a hollow?
sphere it could hold 1,000,000 globes;
each as large as the earth, but if Be
telgeuKe were put in place of the sun
without disturbing our planet’s posi -
tion, the earth would find itself mill-i
ions of miles inside c-f the new sun’s
shell. In fact, Betelgeuue would reach
as far as the orbit of Mars, and if hoi- \
low could hold perhaps a billion globes
like ours.
The astronomers at Mt. Wiison are
confident that they have the diameter
of this stupendous star calculated with
in 10 per cent of the true diameter.—
Current Events.
j Naturally, when silk stockiDgs cost;
| a lot of money the girls were all bocn
to wear ’em. Now that silk stockings
are cheaper, the girls are wearing
woolen ones. Ai few years ago they
would have scoffed at woolen stockings.
It’s the style that makes the difference.
The manufacturers have a lot of sur
plus wool on their hands, and they
know how to transfer it to the feet of
the women. People seem to have \
plenty of money to spend still, and it
is their privilege to say what they ,
shall spend it for.—Pathfinder.
Japan has J50 people to each square
mile of its territory, and its population
is increasing at the rate of 750.000 a
year. What to do with the people is
Japan’s serious problem. Curbed by
United States, Canada and Australia, it j
has no desirable land toward which it j
can turn for emigration. To solve the
problem without serious trouble will
require the wisest of Japanese states- '
ship.—Ex.
The coughs of many women prevent
ed a lecture on British- American rela
tions in Brooklyn. The women were
Irish sympathizers who thought the
lecturer was going to say something;
unfavorable to Ireland. Fifty police- :
men were there to prevent a disturb
ance, but there is no law against
coughing. So the police could do noth
idg, and the lecture could not go on.
A partisan contest now seems prob- j
able during the Harding administra- |
tion. the Democrats defending the i
present Federal reserve banking sys
tem, which they put into operation,
and the Republicans wishing to substi
tute for it a system with one central
ized bank.
The largest disappearing gun in the
world has been made at the U. S. ar—j
senal at Watertown, Mass. It can
throw a shall weighing 2,400 pounds a
distance of 35. -miles, and disappears
after firing until ready to fire again.
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