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Astronomy for amateurs (1904)

Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 122

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ania, wherethe Society of Spectroscopists was founded with thisespecial object, and publishes monthly bulletins instatistics of the health of the Sun. These prominences assume all imaginable forms, andoften resemble our own storm-clouds; they rise abovethe chromosphere with incredible velocity,… … ^#iMMfii Fig. 31.—Rose-colored solar flames 228,000 kilometers (141,-500 miles) in height, /. e., iS times the diameter of the Earth. on every side; sometimes they shoot out into spacelike splendid curving roseate plumes; at others theyrear their luminous heads in the Heavens, like the 103…

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