II4 IN STARRY REALMS, 



Saturn, like our earth and like the moon, is entireb 

 indebted to the sun for its supply of light. Bright as the 

 planet may seem, it has no intrinsic luminosity all we 

 gee is merely the reflected solar beams. Its globe is of 

 noble proportions. Were that globe divided into six 

 hundred equal parts, and were each of those parts rolled 



Pig. 9. The Sun and its Attendant Worlds. 



into a globe, it would be a larger ball than this earth of 

 ours, eight thousand miles in diameter. A view of this 

 orbit of Saturn, as well as of some of the other planets, is 

 shown in the adjoining figure. 



This mighty globe also revolves on its axis, but its day 

 is much shorter than ours, as each revolution of Saturn is 

 accomplished in ten hours and fourteen minutes. Owing 

 to its higher speed of rotation, the bulging out at the 



