Word: corona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each department, men are interested in the temperatures of things they can't touch, Professor Donald H. Menzel wants to explain the temperature of the corona, a collar of thin gas around the sun. Professor Louis C. Graton wants to find the temperature of geyser holes...
Menzel, whose thermometers must reach 93,000,000 miles, seems to have the tougher job. The temperature of the sun is 6000 Centigrade, but the temperature of the corona, which the naked eye can see only during total eclipses, appears to be 1,000,000. That's what Menzel is trying to explain, but it's only one of his worries...
...station in New Mexico, close to the site of the first atom bomb. The observatories are equipped with spectrohelioscopes-- astronomical X-ray machines that penetrate to the inner layers of the sun--and with coronoscopes, which blot out the sun like an eclipse, so that the other corona can be watched. Menzel went west a few months ago to spend all his time at the solar stations, on the Astronomy Department's biggest project...
...Just a Synopsis." With his present (and fourth) wife, pretty onetime show girl Lucille ("Brown Sugar") Wilson, Satchmo makes his "regular home" in a twelve-room house in a mixed white-and-colored neighborhood in Corona, borough of Queens, New York City...
Professor Menzel will move to the high-altitude observatory in Climax, Colorado, which he founded in 1940. Here he will continue his work on the corona and on the sun's effects on the earth...