Word: coronas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of Harvard scientists--working under a $280,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration--has constructed a new device to gather data on the solar corona...
Menzel was an authority on the sun and the sun's corona, Cornell said. He wrote 26 books in his lifetime, and his last, concerning unidentified flying objects, was published posthumously, Cornell added...
...Sundays the couple often goes out for dinner, and after the meal Byrd may light up a cigar (a Montecristo or a La Corona...
...Corona, Calif...
Died. Donald H. Menzel, 75, one of the world's leading authorities on the sun; in Boston. Menzel observed his first solar eclipse as a boy in Colorado, and spent the rest of his life studying the sun and its corona. A member of the Harvard faculty for nearly 40 years. Menzel watched 15 total solar eclipses, leading expeditions to Siberia, the Sahara and other remote outposts to get the best views. In 1938 he developed the U.S.'s first coronagraph, a telescopic device that allows scientists to study the sun's glowing halo without the help...