Pacific Gas and Electric magazine (1912) (14780809831)

Identifier: pacificgaselectr41913paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library



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upon his work areawaited with the greatest possible interest byastronomers all over the world. This welearn from his associates, one of whom. Pro- fessor Aitken, elaborates upon the work ofstellar observation. We are dividing our stars up according to the stages of their development, he says.Too much importance cannot be attached to the discovery that the older stars move thefaster. It is one of the most remarkable dis-coveries we have made. It reveals a law ofthe stellar universe for which we must yet findthe explanation. Concerning his particular work in observ-ing double stars Professor Aitken tells usthat he finds the percentage of these phen-omena greater in the region of the milky waythan away from it. But he tells us mod-estly, My survey on that point is not yetcomplete. In due course we are taken over to theCrossley reflector, a telescope that was pre-sented to the Lick Observatory in 1895 byProfessor Crossley, of Halifax, England. Itis of English manufacture but was almost use-
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