It is difficult to realise that the sun, compared with some of the vast flaming stars swinging through space, is a relatively unimportant pinhead of fire. A motor car on a trio round the earth's equator would take about 17 days eight hours at a speed of GO miles an hour-. A littie loss than five years would cover the distance at the same speed round the sun. But to circle A mares, tha largest known star, would take approximately 1070 years, for the diameter of Antares, which is more than 27fl. ll, ‘io,fl r iii miles, is more than 300 times that <■> ‘“ *«»
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19905, 27 September 1926, Page 9
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103Page 9 Advertisements Column 2 Otago Daily Times, Issue 19905, 27 September 1926, Page 9
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