Canopus — Mightiest of Suns 



Chiefly of incandescent hydrogen, and probably gaseous to the core, the immensity of 

 Canopus, a first magnitude star in the southern hemisphere, is here shown as it would appear, 

 in the sky were it situated even twice the sun's distance from us. Were it ever to come 

 much nearer the earth, we would be scorched by a terrible heat that would kill everything 



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