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Radium, in addition to the three groups of rays alpha, beta, and gamma, disengages continuously an extremely subtle emanation, seemingly almost imponderable, but which may be, for many reasons, looked upon as a vapour of which the elastic force is extremely feeble.
Closer than any other, closer even than Alpha Centauri, the new sun appeared, scarcely three light-years away across the void surrounding the solar system. And all the while he watched, he witnessed a thing no man had ever before seen the birth of a world! By one o'clock, the new star was of fifth magnitude; by two it was of the first.
Also, they were both getting on very well in their careers, by which is meant that they both had spare cash to rattle in the pockets of their admirably-creased trousers. "Come to the theatre with us to-night, Omega?" said Mr. Alpha. "I don't think we will," said Mr. Omega. "But we particularly want you to," insisted Mr. Alpha. "Well, it can't be done," said Mr. Omega. "Got another engagement?"
When the color is well seen, the contrast with alpha is very pleasing. There is hardly anything else in Crater to interest us, and we pass over the border into Corvus, and go at once to its chief attraction, the star delta. The components of this beautiful double are of magnitudes three and eight; distance 24", p. 211°; colors yellow and purple.
The components of alpha^1 are of magnitudes four and eight and a half, distance 44", p. 220°. With the Washington twenty-six-inch telescope a third star of magnitude fourteen has been found at a distance of 40", p. 182°. In alpha^2 the magnitudes of the components are three and ten and a half, distance 7.4", p. 150°. The smaller star has a companion of the twelfth or thirteenth magnitude, distance 1.2", p. 240°. This, of course, is hopelessly beyond our reach.
They demand completeness. A sublime segment, a grand fragment, are of no value to them. They demand the complete circle the entire structure. In music they want a melody with a recurring accent at measured periods. In religion they insist upon immediate answers to the questions of creation and destiny. The alpha and omega of all things must be in the alphabet of their superstition.
It would take the "Empire State Express," never stopping night or day and going at the rate of a mile a minute, almost 50,000,000 years to travel from the earth to this star. The next of the fixed stars and the brightest in all the heavens is that which we call Sirius or the Dog Star. It is double the distance of Alpha Centauri, that is, it is eight "light years" away.
For it was known beyond a doubt that he had on more than one occasion relieved the families of the other singers, and had relieved them, too, in a most substantial way. It was evident that he had means; but if he had means, why did he sing in the choir? This question was the Alpha and Omega of ail that concerned him.
The observed appearances might have been produced by a collision, and no better hypothesis has yet been suggested to account for them. Near the opposite end of the constellation from alpha we find the most interesting of triple stars in gamma. The two larger components of this beautiful star are of magnitudes three and six, distance 10", colors golden yellow and deep blue.
"You are right, my daughter," he groaned; "it is going down; the cowardly dogs in the east have deserted their posts. It is going down! It will sink into a tunnel filled with water, and the light of Alpha will be extinguished forever. We are undone! Say your prayers, my child, your prayers, I tell you, for an Infinite God is angry at our pretensions!"
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