The Sphere , 6th April 1907
Drawn by Percy Home
HOW OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IS TRAVELLING TOWARDS THE CONSTELLATION, HERCULES, AMONG THE FAST-MOVING STARS
The British Astronomical Association discussed at Sion College on Wednesday of last week a new conception of the universe which is of a high, interesting character.
From recent researches it appears that there are two great “star drifts’ among the so-called “fixed stars,” which arc not in reality fixed. One body of stars moves three or four times as fast as the other and everywhere interpenetrates it.
Our sun appears to be one of the fast-moving stars and is drifting away towards the constellation, Hercules, in the company of the rapidly-moving half of the cosmos. The sun also has a motion of its own among these stars.