Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1901 — The Immensity of Space. [ARTICLE]

The Immensity of Space.

Light travels from Jupiter’s satellites at the same rate as it does from our gas lamps. A few years ago a star suddenly came into sight, burst into first-order brightness and then, in five or six weeks, died out of sight. Difference of opinion existed between spectoscopists like Huggins and Lockyer as to what it meant, but there was general agreement that what we saw was something that happened in the time of Queen Elizabeth, only that the light had taken 300 years to reach us. It was the “latest news,” in fact, from that part of "he heavens. The rate of transmissic.. uo one questioned.