 | Richard Cockburn Maclaurin - 1909 - 324 pages
...bright lines on the side towards the blue, all three lines being separated by intervals relatively dark. The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer which...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... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1910 - 316 pages
...lines on the side towards the blue, all the three lines being separated by intervals relatively dark. "The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer,...: 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 ;... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 846 pages
...toward the blue, all the three lines being separated by intervals relatively dark. The riddle of nebulie 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 ;... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 840 pages
...toward the blue, all the three lines being separated by intervals relatively dark. The riddle of nebula; 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; the... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 844 pages
...separated by intervals relatively dark. The riddle of nebul.-E was solved. The anVwer, which had conie 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 ;... | |
 | Hector Macpherson - 1926 - 220 pages
...? I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected ! A single bright line only. . . . The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer which...: Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas. . . . There remained no room for doubt that the nebulae, which our telescopes reveal to us, are the... | |
 | 1902 - 590 pages
...bright lines on the side towards the blue, all three lines being separated by intervals relatively dark. The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer,...Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas." With this advance a new era of progress began. The power of the spectroscope to distinguish between... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 850 pages
...side toward the blue, all the three lines being separated by intervals relatively dark. The riddle of nebulae was solved. The answer, which had come to...: Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas. Stars after the order of onr own sun, and of the brighter stars, would give a different spectrum; the... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903 - 892 pages
...toward the blue, all three lines being separated by intervals relatively dark. The riddle of the nebuliw was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the light itself, read: Not an aggregation of stars, hut a luminous gas." With this advance a new era of progress began. The power of the spectroscope to... | |
 | 1897 - 1044 pages
...lines on the side towards the blue, all the three lines being separated by intervals relatively dark. The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer,...: 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 ;... | |
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The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the light itself, read: Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas. 
