Word: corona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early in the evening, as he steered his home-made telescope methodically across the western sky, Clarence Friend noted a bright streak disrupting the usually placid constellation Corona. Friend knew that he had spotted a comet, one of the mavericks of the solar system. He also knew what to do about it. Quickly figuring the ascension, declination and magnitude of his find, he rushed the news by time-dated telegram to Harvard University Observatory, the astronomic clearing house for the western hemisphere. The observation was promptly confirmed...
...next 30 seconds of full eclipse, the feverish cameramen got a movie record and 36 still pictures, some in color, of the corona. Exactly two minutes and 30 seconds later, the sun, smiling on Dr. Stewart's happy party, disappeared behind the clouds again...
Mysterious Corona. Last week's eclipse, whose maximum duration (in Greenland) was 76 seconds, raised to a bare two and a quarter hours the total recorded observation of eclipses by modern science. Much of the scientific interest centers around the corona, which extends for millions of miles from the sun's surface. The corona,'most scientists think, is created by electromagnetic radiation and is probably related to the sun's magnetism and sunspots. Astrophysicists argue mildly among themselves about what its incandescent elements are (perhaps calcium, hydrogen, helium). The corona gives off a strange light, differing...
Scientists are puzzled by the fact that the corona (about 1,000,000° C.) is vastly hotter than the sun itself (6,000°). Scientists hope that study of the photographs and other observations made last week will tell them more about the corona, the deflection of stars' light rays by the sun, the moon's "falling shadow" (which Professor Stewart's party was in a particularly good position to observe, because it saw the eclipse very soon after sunrise, low on the horizon...
...navigation. Toughest route is that flown by Mountain States Aviation, Inc., whose one single-engined Beechcraft biplane has been successfully making the 286-mile loop from Denver through northwestern Colorado since July 24. On each trip it must fly through five mountain passes higher than 9,000 feet (highest: Corona Pass, 11,680 ft.). Other lines now operating are Massey & Ransom, and the Pueblo Air Services. Colorado Airlines, Inc. operated for three months this spring, has been discontinued because, like the rest of the lines, it lost money. But it is sure the line would be profitable with bigger...