Side-lights on astronomy and kindred fields of popular science; essays and addresses (1906)
Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909 · New York Harper · leaf 332
e.But it was soon found that we cannot conclude thatbecause a star is bright, therefore it is near. Themost striking example of this is afforded by theabsence of measurable parallaxes in the two brightstars, Canopus and Rigel, showing that these stars,though of the first magnitude, are… … STAR SPECTRA THE UNIVERSE AS AN ORGANISM tury of observation, and it is not certain that Canopushas either. From this alone we may conclude, witha high degree of probability, that the distance of eachis immeasurably great. We may say with certaintythat the brightness of each is thousands of times…
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