Stories by Henry Norris Russell

When Astronomers Talk of Galaxies of Stars 60,000,000,000,000,000,000 or More Miles Distant, How Have They Arrived at Such Stupendous Figures?

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, Once thought to be hot, are so deeply Shrouded with Extremely Frigid Clouds that their Surface Temperatures Remain Unknown

The Search for Exceptional Stars--Some Unusually Bright, Some Exceptionally Faint, Others Very Rapid--Forms an Intriguing Specialty for the Modern Astrophysicist

How the Modern Spectroscope Reveals Secrets to the Astrophysicist

Its Habitability is Made More Probable By Recent Observations Whether it is Actually Inhabited is Still Unknown

An Eclipse of the Sun, One of the Moon, and the Arrival of a Comet Will Keep Astronomers Interested During the Month of June

How Astronomers Imitate Stellar Temperatures of 36,000 Degrees, Fahrenheit

New Knowledge May Enable Scientists This Time to Fathom Its Secrets

The Phenomenon Known as Lunar Appulse Is Not a Highly Rare Astronomical Event, as Was Recently Announced by the Press. Nevertheless It Involves Interesting Considerations

Are the Moon's Craters Volcanic or Are They Meteoric "Shell-holes"?

By Modern Mass-product Methods the Astronomer Now Seeks for New Asteroids

Stars Which Revolve in Pairs, Somewhat Like Dumbbells, Alternately Eclipse One Another. Recent Studies of Such a Pair Strikingly Confirm the Previous Theories of Astronomers Concerning the Several Characteristics of the Stars

Recent Photographic and Other Investigations With Instruments Instead of the Human Eye Confirm the Majority of the Conclusions of Lowell Concerning Mars