Word: corona
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Leaving Cambridge at 5 o'clock sleepy and hungry was a hardship they forgot when they saw the flashes, the corona, the colorful shadows flitting across the snow, and the brief appearance of the stars. The returned pilgrims were inclined to shout "sour grapes" at the cynical comments of those who had remained at home...
Professor Shapley concluded by saying, "Of course we cannot tell for several weeks just what scientific discoveries will have been added to our knowledge of the sun and its eclipses. We hope, however, that our special study of the corona, conducted under very favorable conditions, will yield interesting results...
...Harvard Observatory tomorrow is maintaining four official observation stations along the path of totality, from which they will attempt to measure photographically the light of the corona. The efforts to determine the facts has led the Harvard observers to request amateurs to station themselves along the northern border of the path of totality, which extends approximately from Cotuit, directly through Providence, to Stafford, Connecticut, in order to determine the exact line along which the shadow of the eclipse ceases to be total...
...Observatory has already stationed several observers along the path of totality. These will attempt to measure photographically the light of the corona, which special problem has been delegated to the University...
Professor Shapley and his associates are devoting their particular attention to the problem of the corona, which consists of rays of light appearing around the edge of the moon when it completely covers the sun. What it is made up of is still a mystery to the world and it is hoped that Professor Shapley's observations may shed some light on the subject. His lecture, which is open to the public, is given under the auspices of the Harvard chapter of the Gamma Alpha Scientific Society...