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...slight that it took 300 years of patient endeavor before instruments were perfected sufficiently exact to discover this so-called "parallax" which gave the clue to stellar distances. The first star to have its distance determined in this way is a faint star numbered 61 in the constellation Cygnus now visible in the eastern sky. Its distance was found to be about 60,000,000,000,000 miles, or so far away that the light from it consumed ten years in reaching the earth. This happened in 1840. Since that time hundreds of stars have had their distance measured similarly...
...MORRISON, 19 Hastings.THE "CYGNUS" will leave New York for Poughkeepsie at 9 a. m., not 10 a. m., as previously announced...