| 1897 - 918 pages
...the blue, all the three lines being separated by intervals relatively dark. The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the...read: Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas. Stars after the order of our own sun, and of the brighter stars, would give a different spectrum; the... | |
| 1900 - 600 pages
...the blue, all the three lines being separated by intervals relatively dark. The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the...read: Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas. Stars after the order of our own sun, and of the brighter stars, would give a different spectrum; the... | |
| George Iles - 1900 - 486 pages
...nebula in Draco, by Ur. (now Sir) William Htiggins. This is what he saw : The riddle of the nebulie was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the light itself, read, Not an aggregation of stars, PLATK XVIII. THE NKHULA IN ORION. From the drawing by Professor GP Bond, 1859-^3. Pi ••* Xi.< 1... | |
| 1902 - 230 pages
...William Huggins. This is what he saw: "The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer, which kad come to us in the light itself, read, Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas. Stars after the order of our own sun, and of the brighter stars, would give a different spectrum, the... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903 - 1122 pages
...toward the blue, all three lines being separated by intervals relatively dark. The riddle of the ncbulat was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the...luminous gas." With this advance a new era of progress begat). The power of the spectroscope to distinguish between a glowing gas and a mass of partially... | |
| William Marshall Watts - 1904 - 414 pages
...blue, all the three lines being sepa rated by intervals relatively dark. " The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the...: Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas. Stars after the order of our own sun, and of the brighter stars, would give a different spectrum ;... | |
| George Ellery Hale - 1908 - 482 pages
...toward the blue, all three lines being separated by intervals relatively dark. The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the...spectroscope to distinguish between a glowing gas and a starlike mass of partially condensed vapors established it at once in the place it still holds as the... | |
| 1909 - 518 pages
...the evening of August 29, 1864, to the test of spectroscopic analysis. " The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the...Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas." The all prevailing hvdrogen was there, and, as future researches have shown, its sympathetic companion... | |
| Richard Cockburn Maclaurin - 1909 - 324 pages
...towards the blue, all three lines being separated by intervals relatively dark. The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer which had come to us in the...Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas." Thus the spectroscope tells us something of the physical condition of a substance. It shows whether... | |
| 1909 - 510 pages
...the evening of August 29, 1864, to the test of spectroscopic analysis. " The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the...Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas." The all prevailing hydrogen was there, and, as future researches have shown, its sympathetic companion... | |
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