Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebrating some ancient solar anniversary, the sun appeared to be setting off fireworks last week. Astronomer Lucien d'Azambuja of the Paris Observatory at Meudon peered at solar photographs made with his powerful spectrohelioscope, found flaring "prominences'" shooting out 90,000 to 180,000 miles from the surface. Astronomer d'Azambuja declared he had not observed such intense solar activity for 20 years...
...survey of the solar neighborhood, Dr. Shapley said that Dr. Luyten of the University of Minnesota, using Harvard plates, has completed a very extensive study of star motions. "He has found in the south Southern sky eightyfive thousand stars that show motion with respect to their neighbors, and among this vast number of moving objects are undoubtedly many that are the dwarf asosciates...
Observation of last spring's solar eclipse from Ak-Bulak, Siberia, is the subject of a public lecture to be given at 8 o'clock tonight at the Institute of Geographical Exploration by Donald H. Menzel, associate professor of Astronomy...
Tabor, a science instructor at Episcopal Academy who, wearing a skating cap and sheepskin coat, "shoots" on fair nights from 7 o'clock to n. Dr. I. M. Levitt of Franklin Institute comes out every day to make solar observations on the Cook spectrohelioscope. These data are sent to the Paris Observatory which collects solar reports from all over the world for the International Astronomical Union. Gustavus Wynne Cook is an extremely able and versatile craftsman. In his roomy machine shop on the third floor of "Roslyn House," he made a three-inch star transit of a new type...
...installation of the new 200-inch telescope at the Mt. Wilson Observatory in California is expected to help crack this problem as well as that of what lies beyond the edge of the universe. It is thought that the nebulae which can be perceived through present telescopes are embryonic solar systems...