MAJESTY OF THE SUN.
Dr. H. Spencer Jones, F.R.S., the Astronomer Royal, tells us much that is informative and interesting of the greatest of stars—the sun. It is, he says, a large body—GSo,ooo miles in diameter, compared with the 8000/ miles of the earth. It contains, therefore, about 1.250.000 bodies of the size of the earth. Its weight is about 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons, or 332,000 times the weight of the earth. Volume for volume, the sun is not so heavy a<3 the earth. The earth weights 5J times as much as it won 11 if it consisted entirely of water, but the sun weighs rafc'ier less than H tim-v as much as a bvdy of equal size consisting entirely of water. The sun is intensely bright. Every square inch of its surface shines with a light equal to more than 300,000 candlepower. In other words, it sends out as much light as is sent out from th> Eddystone Lighthouse. The output of heat is equally prolific; the total energy which on" square inch of sun is continually sending out into space would suffice to 'run a 62 h.p. engine.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 230, 28 September 1935, Page 9 (Supplement)
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