Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1916 — Seeing the Heavens. [ARTICLE]

Seeing the Heavens.

An estimation of the number of stars seen with the aid bf the modern telescope was a few years ago made at 125,000,000. According to a more recent estimate there are about 219,OOO’OOO stars brighter than the twentieth magnitude. Professor Hale Jias recently stated that ‘‘there is reason to hope that the 100-inch telescope would add nearly 100 still fainter stars, many of them lying beyond the boundary of the universe as at present known,” and within a year or so such a telescope (1. e., a will probably be in use in North America * 1 ■ f