The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend (1919)
Kippax, John R. (John Robert), 1849-1922 · New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 468
fficient at the surface to make theglobe self-luminous. The great planet is looked uponas a sort of semi-sun—a sun which has just ceasedto shine by its own light. It probably gives out anappreciable quantity of heat, and may have a dull redglow, but radiates no sensible quantity of light. Inthe… … Lick Observatory Plate XXXVI. The Planet Jupiter, Showing the Red Spot and a Satellite (The image is inverted as in astronomical telescopes. The oval marking onthe upper left-hand portion of the disk is the Red Spot. The roundblack spot to the right is the shadow of the Satellite) Jupiter and…
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