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...midriff of yellow Saturn, behind its girdle of rings, an immense, glaring white sore, about 7,000 miles across, broke out last week. First to see it was Astronomer John Edwin Willis at the Naval Observatory in Washington. Although it was after midnight, he routed out the observatory's superintendent, who flashed the news to Harvard Observatory, whence it was relayed to observatories the world over. White spots have been descried on Saturn before, one on the equator in 1876, several in the northern hemisphere in 1903. Astronomers could not find out what produced them. Last week every device...
...photometer for measuring star distances, has given Harvard the largest collection of stellar photographs in the world. There were over 250,000 plates of both southern and northern stars in his laboratories. William Henry Pickering, who was also a professor of Astronomy here, discovered Phoebe, the ninth satellite of Saturn and proved that it moved in a direction opposite to the others. He travelled widely, made intensive studies of the moon, and established an observatory in Jamaica, British West Indies...
...Menzel, noted authority on the atmosphere of the sun. Taking as his topic "The Puzzle of the Planets," he will expound, among other things, the secret of the canals on Mars and the possibility of life there, the frozen clouds of Jupiter, and the rings of Saturn. He will also discuss the discovery of Pluto, and the speculations it has incited as to the number of planets and the boundary of the sun's domain...
...variation in brilliance have been set forth by astronomers all over the country, but few of them seem to give any valid reason for it. Whipple stated that one of the more feasible is that there may be a great cloud of meteor dust, not unlike that which surrounds Saturn, through which the comet is at present passing; and it is the gases that are emitted by this cloud which unite with the comet and produce a reflection of unusual brillianey, a light which is made brighter by the presence of the sun. Another theory has been that ultraviolet light...
...Uccle outside Brussels. * Satellite Phoebe (200 mi. diam.) is 8,034,000 mi. from its planet Saturn; Satellites Sixth (100 mi.) & Seventh (40 mi.) are 7,200,000 and Satellites Eighth (40 mi.) and Ninth (20 mi.) are 14,750,000 mi. from their Planet Jupiter...