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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21975, 26 December 1936, Page 15

A superb cluster of stars. . !-.r fi r-' one to be seen in the northern ar”-.-sphere. consists of at least 100.000 mats each bigger and brighter and hottw than the sun. which is itself more than, a million times bigger than this earth They are all in rapid motion together through the heavens like a stupendous swarm of bees in flight through the sir —a densely crowded central mass surrounded by numerous stragglers scattered about on the outside. Ml 3. I* 1 ? cluster’s official number in astronomers’ star charts, sends out 2.500.000 times as much light as the sun. Yet so immensely distant is it that the unassisted human eye is only just able to see it. when visibility is good, as a faint little patch of milky light on the black night sky. Is is so incredibly far away, indeed, that a light ray or a wireless signal, which can fly seven times round the earth in a single -frond. would need no Its- than "3.000 years to travel from the earth to :h-3 [wonderful star cluster.