Word: coronas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they set up their cameras in a Douglas DC-8 jetliner and flew high over Canada during last summer's eclipse, Drs. Guglielmo Righini of Italy and Armin J. Deutsch of the U.S. counted on snapping some of the clearest pictures yet of the sun's glowing corona. But up there above the dust, water vapor and other difficulties of the earth's atmosphere, the two astronomers told the Florence meeting of COSPAR (Committee on Space Research), they found far more than they expected. Their pictures of the sun's spectrum showed a strange line that...
...that the line was hard to identify; its wave length showed that it came from ionized calcium atoms that have lost one electron. But where did this calcium come from? At the corona's temperature, 3,000,000º, calcium loses nearly all its 20 electrons and shows the loss by emitting a different kind of light. In the singly ionized state, calcium cannot exist above a comparatively frigid...
...giving him a half-century to play an all-purpose, Anglo-American Blimp-the lean, mean subspecies-in more than 100 plays and films, notably The Philadelphia Story (Hepburn's papa), The Iceman Cometh (the Boer War bore), sitting in so many stage wing chairs puffing Corona Coronas that he developed phlebitis, occupational ailment of English clubmen; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia...
...These bursts also drift from high to low frequencies, but with great rapidity. Each burst lasts roughly one second, and the drift rate corresponds to an outward velocity of 100,000 km/sec. Such radiation may be due either to fast traveling nuclear particles of to shock waves in the corona. Although Type III events have been associated with numerous small flares, they do not appear to have any effect on the earth...
...first serious project with the new antenna was begun early this past summer. Dennis N. Downes '65 and Michael P. Hughes, Dr. Maxwell's research associate at the station, observed the passage of the solar corona in front of the Crab Nebula. In late June the Crab Nebula, the gaseous remnants of a star which exploded in 1054, was in the daytime sky near...