Is There Life in the Stars?
“DWARFS” AND “GIANTS” NEW YORK, Nov. 23. Chances that forms of life similar to those on tne earth exist elsewhere in the universe are held to have been considerably increased as a result of a new “star census.” This census, reported to tho National Academy of Science at Charlottesville, Virginia, shows that there is a larger number of stars resembling our sun than had been previously believed. According to some observers, the amazing increases recently made in the estimated number of the starry host heightens the probability that there are other suns with planet families in the same state of evolution as our own.
Given equal conditions, similar results, such as the appearance of life, could be expected. The stars are roughly divided into i( dwarfs” and “giants.” Most of those seen by the naked eye are giants, and our sun is a dwarf.
Latest studies of the heavens, however, reveal many more dwarfs, and the census appears to indicate that, while the giants are concentrated in the neighbourhood of tho Milky Way, the dwarfs increase in regions of the universe which are further away, and reach 35 per cent, of the total.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 8, 10 January 1936, Page 5
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