Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movement of the whole solar system relative to neighbor stars takes him in the direction of Vega at about 12 miles per second...
...among the nearest galaxies, this ratio does not hold. The Milky Way appears to be approaching some, receding from others. To isolate this motion, Dr. Hubble had to allow for and discount the sun's own movement within the Milky Way-since he was perforce using the solar system as an observation station. After ten years of accumulating data, he gave it as his opinion last week that the Milky Way is traveling among its neighbor galaxies at a pace of 100 miles per second. Direction of movement is toward the constellation Draco, "The Dragon...
...Solar Prophet. Studying the sun as a variable star, Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution has found a number of cyclic variations in the amount of sunshine bathing the earth which affect its weather. Last week he announced finding a new short cycle of 16 days. This is closely correlated with wide temperature swings on earth - swings of 15 and even 25°. The pattern of temperature change following the 16-day cycle varies from place to place and from month to month, but Dr. Abbot believes that the value of 16-day temperature prediction to industry...
...late Dr. Edwin Emery Slosson, famed chemistry popularizer, who hired him as a staff writer for Science Service. As a Science Service writer Stokley hopped over to Germany to get his first look at a planetarium. He was thrilled. Since then he has directed two solar eclipse expeditions and two years ago, on a freighter in the Pacific with Astronomer John Quincy Stewart of Princeton, witnessed the longest total eclipse of the sun (7 min. 6 sec.) seen by man in more than 1,200 years...
Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard Observatory, will set an chairman of a scientific conference to be held today in Washington, D. C. on the question of "Princeton Measurement of Solar Radium...