HOCKEY.
(press association txleghah.) DUNEDIN, March 25. Sydenham beat Dunedin City by G goals to
Professor Albert Mielielson, the American inventor of a device for measuring the stars, as a first test of his apparatus, measured tho star Alpha Orionis (the first star in tho Belt of Orion), which is 150 light years from the* earth. _ Tho astonisliing result of his calculations is that this star has a diameter of 260.000,000 miles, or.a little moro than 300 times the size of tho sun. If it were placed as near tho -earth as the sun is it would fill the whole visible heavens with blinding brilliancy.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17104, 28 March 1921, Page 9
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