Giberne, Agnes, 1845- [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, National book company · leaf 352
less in num-ber. But the spectra of the stars dif-fered from the spectrum of the sun.Bach particular star had its own par-ticular spectrum of light, differentfrom that of the sun, and differentfrom that of every other star. For now, spectra, showingFraunhofer was examining, not sun- Tm5 DARK… … 348 STORY OF THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS. to some extent from the rest in its make. Thefact of the stars showing numerous sets of blacklines, all unlike those of our sun, showed conclu-sively that those lines could not possibly be due toanything in our earthly atmosphere. Sunlight andstarlight travel…
Astronomy
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