The pith of astronomy <without mathematics>; the latest facts and figures as developed by the giant telescopes; (1896)
Bayne, Samuel G. (Samuel Gamble), 1844-1924 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 34
ould weighover three tons on the sun, and hisown weight would flatten and killhim. Light travels at the rate of 186,000miles per second, and reaches us fromthe sun in eight minutes. The lightfrom the sun is 150 times as great asthat of the lime cylinder of the calciumlight, and it makes all other… … , ,iu; A GREAT SOLAR SPOT (As seen by Langley.) THE SUN 9 sun, as well as of many of the fixedstars that surround us. The sun is believed to be a mass ofintensely heated matter in the gaseousstate, consisting of both the permanentgases, like hydrogen, and of metallicvapors powerfully compressed by…
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