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A Slight Difference

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
August
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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The nearest fixed star whose distance has been rueasured by the astrononiers, is Alpha Centauri, as you know. lts parallax -was determined many "yeárs ago, and its distance found to be abcrat seyenty-mie millions of njilHons of íaííesr Mot tïiaï an e"xpressioü of "those figures can possibly give you any conception of the space between us and the star, but that is the way the observer have to put it. Now, it seems, another determination of this star's parallax has been made, which brings the twinkler a bout eighteen roillionsof millionsof miles nearer to us than we thought it was. That is a mighty big diffeence, or it would be iu most thiugs, but inillions and billions and trillious of miles seem to be mere trifles when we are considering the

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News