Astronomy and the Bible; or, God's two great books, nature and revelation . nfusion; but lie finished Ms workand pronounced it very good. Gen. 1:31;2:1. Since then, it seems that changes havebeen constantly going on in the stars are known to be changing inbrightness. Take Castor and Pollux inGemini as examples. Three hundred yearsago, Castor was the brighter of the two, butnow, it is inferior to Pollux in same is true of the star Beta in Libra,as compared with Antares which is not fardistant. There are numbers of such cases,when we take the whole heavens into con-si
Astronomy and the Bible; or, God's two great books, nature and revelation . nfusion; but lie finished Ms workand pronounced it very good. Gen. 1:31;2:1. Since then, it seems that changes havebeen constantly going on in the stars are known to be changing inbrightness. Take Castor and Pollux inGemini as examples. Three hundred yearsago, Castor was the brighter of the two, butnow, it is inferior to Pollux in same is true of the star Beta in Libra,as compared with Antares which is not fardistant. There are numbers of such cases,when we take the whole heavens into con-sideration. It appears evident that some stars havedisappeared from the heavens, and somenew ones have come into existence. Thedisappearance of a star does not mean thatit is annihilated, but that it has becomeopaque and, therefore, has ceased to is probable that all the stars we now seeshining in the heavens will one day go neiv ones which come into existence arenot new creations. They may have origin-ated from nebulous matter. The heavens A STAR TER is found ? .i-ioa,. IS icji::£, 10 minutes, aor»ice 87X degrees. THE LEONIDS. A METEORIC SHOWER.
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