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Sii' James Jeans tells us that there are known stars which are hardly bigger than the earth, but that tho majority of stars arc so largo that hundreds of thousands of earths could be packed inside each and leave room to spare. Here and there there is a giant star largo enough to contain millions of millions of earths. The total number of stars in tlie universe is probably something like the total number of grains of sand on all the seashores of the world!
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 21 February 1931, Page 11
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