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...Mount Wilson Observatory announced that it had completed measurement of the variable star Mira and found it to be, by angular measurement, .06 of a second of arc - about 25% larger than Betelgeuse. It is believed to be about 165 light years distant, which makes its diameter about 250,000,000 miles. Only one larger star, Antares, has been measured.* Therefore, if the centre of Mira were where the center of our Sun is, the orbit of the Earth would be some 25,000,000 miles inside the surface of Mira...
...star Beta Ceti (TIME, March 10) reported by Camille Flammarion, has been discounted by the astronomers of Mount Wilson Observatory. There has been no change in the spectrum of the star, and it is believed that the Paris astronomer may have confused it with its near neighbor, Mira Ceti, which is a true variable star and is now at its brightest...
...What a fancy, Mira! I shall see you many, many times again. And I shall not forget, Mira...
...dearest Mira...
...beach, I cannot drive the thoughts of that time from my mind. And I hold a bit of blue ribbon in my fingers; and, as I look, I cannot keep back the tears. "If I should not see you then, you would not forget me?" I have not forgotten, Mira...