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Another approach is the "coronagraph," developed by Dr. Bernard Lyot of France in 1930. It is a telescope with an internal disc hiding the face of the sun, and specially designed to eliminate glare. Though tricky, it works even better than the spectroheliograph, showing the corona, the faintly glowing halo which surrounds...
...well screened by his gadgets), enormous gaseous solar "prominences" leap in graceful arcs at several hundred miles per second, driven by unknown forces (see cut). Little "spicules" (big enough to be seen at least 93 million miles away) jab up and fall back in four minutes. The ghostly corona waxes and wanes...
Died. Captain Norman Mickey ("Bus") Miller, 38, the Navy's legendary one-man aerial task force, most decorated Navy flyer of World War II; of tuberculosis; in Corona, Calif. A hard-bitten combat pilot, he took his battle-scarred Liberator bomber, Thunder Mug, into Truk time & again at mast top level, sank or damaged more than 60 Jap vessels...
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...
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...