Curiosities of the sky, a popular presentation of the great riddles and mysteries of astronomy (1909)
Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851-1929 · New York, London, Harper & brothers · leaf 143
are kept in a volatilized state. Thevelocity of their ascent occasionally amounts tothree hundred or four hundred miles per second. Itis known from mathematical considerations that thegravitation of the sun would not be able to bring backany body that started from its surface with a… … A SOLAR PROMINENCE. PHOTOGRAPHED MAY 21, I907 THE BANNERS OF THE SUN and condensing into solid masses. There seems to beno reason why some of the projectiles from the sunmight not reach the planets. Here, then, we have,on a relatively small scale, explosions recalling thosewhich it has been…
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