Yes, but I should have to dive down into the ocean to reach his claws.”
DOUBLE STARS.
“That wonderful tell-tale, the ‘telescope,’ reveals the double character of some stars,” said Mr. Marple. “There are six thousand stars which are thus double.
That is singular.
There are some in the Pleiades, in the Dog, in Orion, and in the Southern Cross and Crown. But the most wonderful part of my story is yet to come. Some of these double stars revolve round each other.
What! Great suns at a tremendous distance from one another, walk round one another? Why, if they have planets round them, like our sun has, these must have a fine double journey to make. How many of these strange stars are there?
About 650 of them are Binary or revolving.
But which stands still to have the other revolving round it?
They both move, each one round the other.