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By Robert Black
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TROTSKYIST ANALYSIS We can now answer these questions with varying degrees of accuracy, not because we have telescopes that can see little green men running around on Saturn, but because of our present scientific knowledge of life on earth and the development of extremely refined astronomical instruments.
However, even using the most powerful optical telescopes available today, no star has ever been seen as more than a pinpoint of light.
Yet it was possible for Professor Kopal to give the distance of the star in question, called Epsilon Aurigae: that it is twenty times larger than our sun and is accompanied by a disc of matter 4,000 million miles across, with a temperature of 230 degrees C.
In addition, it was possible to determine that this disc was not wholly composed of gas but contained solid bodies the size of small planets.
These observations, partly carried out with the aid of an American satellite, have tracked down our first view of a solar system in formation and adds c. 50BC.)
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