Science: Splits and Spots

Two suns, circling the earth in separate orbits, one inside the other, with inconceivable complications in the mundane seasons, is the curious prediction credited to Dr. David Todd, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Amherst College. Dr. Todd, who has been making solar studies from an observatory near Philadelphia, discovered a great mass of spots on the eastern edge of the sun, and drew the conclusion that the sun is breaking up. He is said to have claimed that a crack is becoming visible in Old Sol.

But, as usual, the astral doctors disagree. Charitably...

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