Stories by Henry Norris Russell

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

Certain Classes of Stars Have Atmospheres Like the Familiar Oxidizing and Reducing Atmospheres of the Chemical Laboratory

The Encounter Theory of the Origin of Planets Has Now Become Shaky and May Pass into the Limbo Where the Old Nebular Hypothesis Went

Most of Our Present Knowledge of the Composition of the Stars Concerns Only their Atmospheres, Now the Analytical Boring Machine Digs Deeper

A Striking Example of the Extent to Which the Astronomer, Armed with but a Few Observational Data, Can Sometimes Go in Unraveling Puzzles

Galactic Rotation Efects, Interstellar Absorption and Certain Dynamical Constants of the Galaxy Have Been Determined from Cepheid Variable Stars

How the Spectroscope, Working on a Star Whose Secrets the Telescope Does not Reveal, Afords a Striking Abundance of Detailed Facts