Abstract
Does the size of the sun change over the years? Recently, " (Harvard -Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in Boulder)(a mathematician with S. Ross and Co. in Boston) have found evidence that the sun has been contractingabout 0.1% per century…corresponding to a shrinkage rate of about 5 feet per hour. The diameter of the sun is close to one million miles, so that this shrinkage of the sun goes unnoticed over hundreds or even thousands of years. There is no cause for alarm for us or for any of our descendants for centuries to come because the sun shrinks so slowly. Yet the sun does actually appear to shrink. The data Eddy and Boornazian examined spanned a 400-year period of solar observation, so that this shrinkage of the sun, though small, is apparently continual.