Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Antares dropped to second place as news came out of University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis. of a stellar monster four billion miles through the middle. If its centre were placed at the hub of the solar system it would engulf all the planets up to the last and most remote pair, Neptune and Pluto...
...closest approach "Object Reinmuth" sped within 400,000 miles of Earth, which is less than twice the distance of the moon. Collision with one of these small planets or asteroids which lope around the solar system is a perennial theme with lurid fictionists, but mathematical chances against the occurrence are extremely high because of the great distances o space. If a body the size of ''Object Reinmuth" struck this globe it would not only annihilate everything at the site of impact but cause a tremendous earthquake and fires which would destroy life and property hundreds of miles away...
...Abbot, a grey, kind-looking man with a conspicuous mustache, is the secretary (i.e., head) of the Smithsonian Institution, a distinguished authority on the sun, a longtime observer of variations in solar radiation. Dr. Abbot believes that on solar radiation depend temperature and precipitation on earth. He has found in the solar variations a number of periodicities which fit into a 23-year cycle and an even more important cycle of 46 years. Matching the cycles with actual weather records has provided, he declares, partial confirmation. Testifying last week on the Smithsonian's budget needs before a House appropriations...
...nebulae is that, when their light is broken up into a spectrum, certain lines are shifted far to the right, or red end of the chromatic scale. Smaller shifts of this sort have been observed in the spectra of comparatively nearby stars known to be moving away from the solar system...
Sunspots appear to be gigantic whirlpools of gas erupting at the solar surface. Many are big enough to engulf dozens of planets the size of Earth. They wax and wane in cycles averaging a little over eleven years, although some intervals have been as short as eight years, others as long as 16. The cause of sunspots is not known, but it is suspected that periodic shifts in the gravitational pulls of the planets may have something to do with it. The whole sun seems to be disturbed by active spots; more heat is radiated by the sun at such...