
93,000,000 Miles
After a Decade of Laborious Calculations, the Sun's Distance is Slightly Corrected
After a Decade of Laborious Calculations, the Sun's Distance is Slightly Corrected
How Astronomers Derive Such Stupendous Internal Pressures for Earth and Stars
Finding Out With the Spectroscope What the Sun and the Other Stars are Made of
How Three Dutch Astronomers Verified a Theory of the Sun with Simple Apparatus
A New and Promising Interpretation of the Old Problem of the Solar Corona
A Mere War Does Not Sidetrack European Astronomers from Regular Work
New Determination of Its Polar Flattening, with a Saner Proposal for Submarines
Chairman of the Department of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory at Princeton University. Research Associate of the Mount Wilson Observatory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington...
How an "Absurdity" Became a Discovery, Revealing a New State of Matter
A Noteworthy New Atlas Shows Astronomers What the Solar Spectrum is Really Like
What Had Seemed to be an Anomaly Proves to be an Optical Effect with Odd Cause
Recent Search Reveals a Star Shining at Least 45.000 Times Brighter than Our Sun
Newest Evidence Hints Venus is Clothed In Dense Clouds of Polyoxymethelene Hydrates
Astrophysicists Still Are Unable to Solve This Near-at-Home Problem with Finality
In Which it Turns Out that Astronomy Has Something to Learn from Psychology
More and More, Astronomers are Finding Matter as Particles Between the Stars
Taking the Moon's Temperature During an Eclipse Reveals a Phenomenally Big Drop
After Ten Years the Planet Pluto's Mass Has Been Determined, Denser, Darker, More Massive than Was Expected, Laborious Computations
Not Sun-Spots but Gases Erupted from the Sun and Traveling to Earth at Times of Solar Turmoil, Sun-Spots May but Need Not Accompany This
Man's Most Accurate Clock is the Rotating Earth but the Earth Goes Fast and Slow ... Science Must Keep Eternal Watch on its Subtle Changes
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