ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH.
THE .MIGRATION OF STARS
According to some curious astronomical researches recently made and recorded in the “Fortnightly Review” by Professor Turner, many, if not all. of our stars are migrating through space, and have been doing so since tune began. It has lately been realised that there are flocks of stars travelling in just the same manner as birds, and the evidence for this statement contrasts curiously with that considered in the case of birds. Instead of the beginning and end of the journey being best- known while the flight must be- imagined, it is now the steady flight which is observed, while on the whence, and the whither, and especially on the why, wo can only speculate. Nevertheless, the contemplation of associated flocks of stars steadily journeying past us, the consequent suggestion that distant clusters may have passed near us in the long ago, or may \ie approaching to within liail of ns in the rcnioto future, the possibility that our own .sun mav form one of such cluster, aud the identification of his companicx.s—all these facts and possibilities necessarily appeal strongly to our imaginations.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2747, 28 February 1910, Page 2
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188ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2747, 28 February 1910, Page 2
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