The story of the sun, moon, and stars . ighter light of the largest, andthe more rapid movements of the smallest. The lesserstar is often only small by comparison, and may bein reality a very goodly and brilliant sun. Among nearly six hundred doubles examined byone astronomer, there were three hundred and sev-enty-five in which the two stars were of one color,generally white, yellow, orange, or red. The rest weredifferent in tint, the difference between the two sunsin about one hundred and twenty cases being verymarked. For instance, a red primary, as the larger star iscalled, will be seen wit
The story of the sun, moon, and stars . ighter light of the largest, andthe more rapid movements of the smallest. The lesserstar is often only small by comparison, and may bein reality a very goodly and brilliant sun. Among nearly six hundred doubles examined byone astronomer, there were three hundred and sev-enty-five in which the two stars were of one color,generally white, yellow, orange, or red. The rest weredifferent in tint, the difference between the two sunsin about one hundred and twenty cases being verymarked. For instance, a red primary, as the larger star iscalled, will be seen with a small green satellite; or awhite primary will have a little brother-sun of purple,or of dark ruby, or of light red. Sometimes the largersun is orange, the companion being purple or dark 300 STORY OF THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS. blue. Again, the chief star will be red with a bluesatellite, or yellow with a green satellite, or orangewith an emerald satellite, or golden with a reddish-green satellite. We hear of golden and lilac couples,. CONSTELLATIONS IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE. ot cream and violet pairs, of white and green compan-ions. But, indeed, the variety is almost endless. There may be worlds circling around these suns—worlds, perhaps, with living creatures on know little about how such systems of suns andworlds may be arranged. Probably each sun would DIFFERENT KINDS OF SUNS. 30I have his own set of planets, and both snns with theirplanets would travel round one central point. Per-haps, where the second sun is much the smallest, itmight occasionally be like a big blazing satellite amongthe planets—a kind of burning Jupiter-sun to the chiefsun. Among colored stars, single and double, a few may-be mentioned by name as examples. Sirius, as al-ready observed, is a brilliant white sun; and brilliantwhite also are Vega, Altair, Regulus, Spica, and manyothers. Capella, Procyon, the Pole-star, and our own sun,are examples of yellow stars. Aldebaran, Betelgeuse,and P
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