What We Learn from the Sun 



to be a sun. Each star-sun emits, no doubt, the 

 same magnetic influences which give to the 

 zodiacal light and to the solar corona their pecul- 

 iar characteristics. Thus the worlds which 

 circle round those orbs may resemble our own in 

 all those relations which we refer to terrestrial 

 magnetism, as well as in the circumstance that 

 on them also there must be, as on our own earth, 

 a continual downfall of minute meteors. In 

 those worlds, perchance, the magnetic compass 

 directs the traveller over desert wastes or track- 

 less oceans; in their skies the aurora displays 

 its brilliant streamers; while, amid the constel- 

 lations which deck their heavens, meteors sweep 

 suddenly into view, and comets extend their 

 vast length athwart the celestial vault. 



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