THE SUN IS A STAR
“ Galileo was condemned for asserting- that the sun is stationary,” writes the astronomical correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. Relative to the earth, it is so; but the sun is a star and in point of fact the stars are no more quiescent than the planets. Just a century and a-half after Galileo’s time, Sir William Herschel proved that the sun itself moved with a velocity of twelve miles a second, carrying- with it the earth and the other planets. “ And to-day we know that there is not a single ‘ fixed star ’ in the universe; the name survives as a kind of convenient fiction only. Every star and every system of stars is moving with almost unthinkable speed, and in the case of the external galaxies, and presumably our own galaxy, too, the velocities are to be measured not by tens but by hundreds of miles per second.”
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Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3471, 26 May 1934, Page 3
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